Annex 3.4 - Staging Categories in the Chile-U.S. FTA: Prevalence of Tariff Lines and Imports by Country

A Comparative Guide to the Chile-United States Free Trade Agreement and the
Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement

A STUDY BY THE TRIPARTITE COMMITTEE


Annex 3.4
Staging Categories in the Chile-U.S. FTA:
Prevalence of Tariff Lines and Imports by Country

Comparative Study

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Source: Chile-US tariff schedules on USTR web site; DataIntal
1 The Schedule of the United States has a multiple break-out on a single tariff line that is signified by a letter following the tariff line. In this case, the product is treated as a single tariff line when counting the tariff lines, and the import value is treated as corresponding to a split product / s.t. side note.
2 Import data correspond to the year 2001 and are in thousands of US Dollars.
3 It should be noted that in the case of Chile there are a number of products with zero base tariffs that are assigned staging category A (Immediate), rather than staging category F (Continued duty-free).
† In the cases of staging categories with grace periods, the number of years in the description of the basket includes the grace period as well as the period of liberalization.
‡ This category includes products where there are notes (such as exceptions or tariff rate quotas) in the staging category or in a separate column. In some cases staging categories in the table will be empty because all the products subject to that staging category are subject to such a note.
* These are instances where the tariff elimination staging category in the tariff schedule is null.
** These are instances where a tariff line in the import data does not correspond with a tariff line in the tariff schedule.
*** Verbatim from US Schedule


Annex 3.3 to Chapter 3 Annex 3.5 to Chapter 3

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