RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE WT/REG22/3
26July1996
ORGANIZATION(96-2980)
Original: English
CUSTOMS UNION BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Basic DataforArticle XXIV:5 andArticle XXIV:6
Discussions andNegotiations1
Thefollowing communication, dated 8July1996, hasbeen received from theEuropean
Commission.
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Basic Data
1. Theattached datafilescontain foreachitemintheTurkish Tariff asof31December 1995,
thebound ratesofdutycontained inTurkish Schedule XXXVII aswellastheapplied dutyratesand
other charges inforce onthatdate. Theratesapplied byTurkey on1January 1996 following the
Customs Union withEuropean Community arealsoindicated.
Where specific duties areinvolved, anadValorem equivalent (AVE) hasbeenprovided based
ontotaltrade withother WTO members.
2. Asimilar listbased ontheschedule oftheEuropean Community incorporating theresults of
theArticle XXIV:6 negotiations following theAccession ofAustria, Finland andSweden hasalready
beencommunicated totheWTO Secretariat.2
3. Where differences intheapplied ratesinforce for1996 areindicated, thismeans thatthe
Customs Union fortheproducts inquestion haveyettobeachieved.
4. Theattached concordance tables express thetarifflinesintheTurkish Tariff asof31December
1995 interms ofthose intheEU(15)Schedule mentioned above. Thetables compare thesituation
ondutyratesandother charges inforce on31December 1995 andalsoshow thefinalrateswhich
willbereached following fullimplementation oftheURreduction. Where there aredifferences in
product coverage, thetables alsoshow theamount (%)oftrade allocated tothetariff lineinquestion.
Trade Data
5. Data(value andquantity) onTurkey andEUtrade withother WTO members relating toeach
tarifflineintheschedules mentioned above fortheperiod 1992-1993 and1994(average) together with
abreakdown bycountry oforigin iscontained intheenclosed diskettes.
1Interested delegations maycollect copies ofthedocumentation involved from office no.3006.
Trade datahasonlybeensubmitted ondiskettes.
2Seedocument G/L/65/Rev.1 (English only).