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9 May 2001
(01-2389)
Council for Trade in Goods
Sub-Committee on Least-Developed CountriesOriginal:  French
PREFERENTIAL TARIFF TREATMENT FOR
LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
Communication from the Kingdom of Morocco
The following communication, dated 12 April 2001, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco.
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With reference to the High-Level Meeting on Least-Developed Countries held in Geneva on
27 and 28 October 1997 at which the Kingdom of Morocco took the initiative of granting preferentialtariff treatment to exports from African least-developed countries, the Permanent Mission of the
Kingdom of Morocco at Geneva has the honour of informing WTO Members that this initiative has
been furthered by the decision taken by our country and announced by His Majesty the King at the
Africa-Europe Summit in Cairo on 1 and 2 April 2000.
In addition to the cancellation of all of the debts of African least-developed countries  to the
Kingdom, this initiative provides for the removal of all customs barriers on products imported fromthese countries.
The Moroccan market access initiative, which came into force on 1 January 2001, is aimed at
exempting the main products originating in these c ountries from all import duties.  Details of this
initiative appear in the following communication (products, beneficiary countries and rules of origin)and are published in Official Gazette No. 4861a of 6 Chaoual 1421 (1 January 2001), Article 6.
Morocco hereby reiterates its support of and solidarity with African least-developed countries
with a view to helping them to become fully integrated into the multilateral trading system.
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EXEMPTION FROM IMPORT DUTIES FOR PRODUCTS
ORIGINATING IN AND CONSIGNED FROM
CERTAIN AFRICAN COUNTRIES
I. The products listed in Section III of this Article, originating in and consigned from the
following African countries, have been granted full exemption from import duties:
Angola Benin Burkina Faso
Burundi Cape Verde Central African Republic
Chad Comoros DjiboutiEritrea Ethiopia Equatorial Guinea
Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau
Lesotho Liberia Madagascar
Malawi Mali Mauritania
Mozambique Niger Republic of the CongoRwanda Sao Tomé and Principe Sierra Leone
Somalia Sudan Togo
Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia
II. In order to enjoy exemption from import duties, the products listed in Section III of this
Article must:
(a) Comply with one of the following rules of origin:
- be wholly obtained in the territory of one of the above-mentioned African countries pursuant
to Article 16 of the Customs and Indirect Taxation Code, approved by the Dahir enacting Law
No. 1-77-339 of 25 Chaoual 1397 (9 October 1977), or
- be obtained in the territory of the said countries from components or raw materials of foreign
origin which have undergone processing giving them local value added equal to at least 40 per
cent of the product’s price ex works.
(b) be transported directly from the country of origin in question to Morocco and be accompanied
by a specific certificate of origin based on the model determined by the government.
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III. List of products granted full exemption from import duties:
HS No. Product
03 01 10 Live ornamental fish
03 03 42 Yellowfin tunas, frozen
03 03 43 Skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, fro zen, excluding fish fillets and other fish
meat of heading No. 03 04
03 03 79 Other fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading
No. 03 04
03 05 59 Dried fish, whether or not salted but not smoked, other than cod (Gadus
morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)
03 06 13 Shrimps and prawns, frozen
                                                     
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HS No. Product
03 07 49 Cuttle fish, other than live, fresh or chilled
03 07 59 Octopus, other than live, fresh or chilled
03 07 99 Other, including flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than
crustaceans, fit for human consumption, other than live
08 01 19 00 Coconuts
08 02 Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
08 04 3008 04 50 00 00Pineapples, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens
09 01 11 00 00 Coffee, not roasted
09 02 Tea
09 04 to 10 Spices, excluding cumin
12 07 10 Palm nuts and kernels
12 07 30 Castor oil seeds
12 07 92 Shea nuts (karite nuts)
12 11 10 00 Liquorice roots
12 11 20 00 Ginseng roots
12 11 90 10 Pyrethrum
12 11 90 20 Cinchona bark
12 11 90 30 Quassia amara
12 11 90 40 Tonka beans
12 11 90 50 Calabar beans
12 11 90 60 Cubeb pepper
12 11 90 70 Coca leaves
13 01 20 Gum Arabic
14 02 10 00 91 Raw kapok
14 02 10 00 99 Other kapok (excluding raw kapok)
15 15 90 Shea butter (karite nut butter)
16 04 14 Prepared or preserved fish, whole or in pieces, but not minced: tunas, skipjack
and bonito (Sarda spp.)
18 01 Cocoa
24 01 Tobacco
26 01 Iron ores and concentrates
26 03 Copper ores and concentrates
26 06 00 00 Aluminium ores and concentrates
26 14 00 00 Titanium ores and concentrates
40 01 Natural rubber
41 01 10 00 10 Calfskin, fresh or wet-salted
41 01 10 00 51 Raw kip, dried
41 01 10 00 59 Raw kip, dry-salted
41 01 21 00 10 Other raw calfskin, whole, fresh or wet-salted
41 01 21 00 91 Other raw hides and skins of heavy bovine, whole, fresh or wet-salted
41 01 21 00 99 Other raw kip, fresh or wet-salted
41 03 10 00 10 Raw hides and skins of goats or kids, fresh or wet-salted
41 03 10 00 20 Raw hides and skins of goats or kids, dry-salted
41 03 10 00 90 Raw hides and skins of goats or kids, otherwise preserved
44 03 49 91 00 Fine tropical mahogany in the rough
44 03 49 91 00 Other tropical okoumé in the rough
44 03 49 91 00 Other fine wood in the rough
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HS No. Product
44 03 91 92 99 Other common wood in the rough
EX 44 07 Wood, sawn
51 01 Wool, not carded or combed
52 01 00 00 91 Cotton, not carded or combed, ginned and unbleached
52 01 00 00 99 Cotton, not carded or combed, other than unbleached
53 04 10 00 00 Sisal and other textile fibres of the genus Agave, raw
71 02 10/31/39 Diamonds
71 08 11 to 13 Gold
EX 81 05 10 00 00 Cobalt mattes
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