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Section A - General Provisions
1. Each Party shall reduce its most-favored-nation rate of duty applicable to a good provided for under the tariff provisions set out in Tables 308.1.1 and 308.1.2 in Section 8 to the rate set out therein, to the lowest rate agreed by any Party in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, or to such reduced rate as the Parties may agree, in accordance with the schedule set out in Section B, or with such accelerated schedule as the Parties may agree.
2. Notwithstanding Chapter Four (Rules of Origin), when the most-favored-nation rate of duty applicable to a good provided for under the tariff provisions set out in Table 308.1.1 in Section B conforms with the rate established under paragraph 1, each Party shall consider the good, when imparted into its territory from the territory of another Party, to be an originating good.
3. A Party may reduce in advance of the schedule set out in Table 308.1.1 or Table 308.1.2 in Section B, or of such accelerated schedule as the Parties may agree, its most- favored-nation rate of duty applicable to any good provided for under the tariff provisions set out therein, to the lowest rate agreed by any Party in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, or the rate set out in Table 308,1,1 or 308.I.2, or to such reduced rate as the Parties may agree.
4. For greater certainty, most favoured rate of duty does not include any other concessionary rate of duty.
Section B - Rates of Duty and Schedule for Reduction
Table 308.1.1
Automatic Data Processing
Machines (ADP)
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
|
8471.10 |
3.9% |
S |
|
8471.20 |
3.9% |
S |
Digital Processing Units
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
|
8471.91 |
3.9% |
S |
Input or Output Units
Combined Input/Output Units
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
Canada |
8471.92.10 |
3.7% |
S |
Mexico |
8471.92.09 |
3.7% |
S |
United States |
8471.92.10 |
3.7% |
S |
Display Units
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
Canada |
8471.92.32 |
3.7 % |
S |
Canada |
847I.92.33 |
Free |
S |
Canada |
847I.92.34 |
3.7 % |
S |
Canada |
8471.92.39 |
3.7% |
S |
Mexico |
8471.92.10 |
3.7% |
S |
Mexico |
8471.92.11 |
Free |
S |
United States |
8471. 92. 30 |
Free |
S |
United States |
8471.92.40.75 |
3.7% |
S |
United States |
847I.92.40.85 |
3.7% |
S |
Other Input or Output Units
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
Canada |
8471.92.40 |
3.7% |
S |
Canada |
8471.92.50 |
Free |
S |
Canada |
8471.92.90 |
Free |
S |
Mexico |
847I.92.12 |
3.7% |
S |
Mexico |
847I.92.99 |
Free |
S |
United States |
8471.92.20 |
Free |
S |
United States |
8471.92.80 |
Free |
S |
United States |
8471.92.90.20 |
Free |
S |
United States |
8471.92.90.40 |
3.7% |
S |
United States |
8471.92.90.60 |
Free |
S |
United States |
8471.92.90.80 |
Free |
S |
Storage Units
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
|
847I.93 |
Free |
S |
Other units of Automatic Data Processing Machines
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
|
8471.99 |
Free |
S |
Parts of Computers
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
|
8473.30 |
Free |
R |
Computer Power Supplies
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
Canada |
8504.40.40 |
Free |
S |
Canada |
8504.90. I4 |
Free |
R |
Canada |
8504.90.80 |
Free |
R |
Mexico |
8504.40.12 |
Free |
S |
Mexico |
8504.90.08 |
Free |
S |
Mexico |
8504.9il.G9 |
Free |
S |
United States |
8471.99.32 |
Free |
S |
United States |
847I.99.34 |
Free |
S |
Table 308.1.2
Metal. Oxide Varistors
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
Canada |
8533.40.10 |
Free |
R |
Mexico |
8533.40.07 |
Free |
R |
United States: |
8533.40.00A |
Free |
R |
Diodes Transistors and Similar
Semiconductor Devices; Photosensitive
Semiconductor Devices; Light Emitting
Diodes; Mounted Piezo-electric Crystals
|
|
Tariff |
Schedule1 |
|
8541.10 |
Free |
R |
|
8541.21 |
Free |
R |
|
8541.29 |
Free |
R |
|
8541.30 |
Free |
R |
|
8541.50 |
Free |
R |
|
8541.60 |
Free |
R |
|
8541.90 |
Free |
R |
Canada |
8541.40 |
Free |
R |
Mexico |
8541.40 |
Free |
R |
1 |
|
R |
on the date of entry into force of this agreement |
S |
in five equal annual stages commencing January 1, 1999 |