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Import Duties (Consolidation) (Amendment) Act No. 36 Of 2021
Arrangement of Sections

1	Amendment
2	Commencement

republic of vanuatu
Assent:		10/12/2021
Commencement:		01/01/2022
Import Duties (Consolidation) (Amendment) Act No. 36 Of 2021
An Act to amend the Import Duties (Consolidation) Act [CAP 91].
Be it enacted by the President and Parliament as follows-
1	Amendment
The Import Duties (Consolidation) Act [CAP 91] is amended as set out in the Schedule.
2	Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it is published in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE
AMENDMENTS OF import duties (consolidation) ACT [CAP 91]
1	Subsection 1(1)
Delete “Parts 2A, 2B and 3 of Schedule 1”, substitute “Schedule 3”
2	Schedule 1
(a)	After tariff item 1902.30.00, insert
“
Tariff Item	Description	Import Duty Rate	
1902.30.10	- - Instant noodle	20%	
”
(b)	After tarrif item 1904.10.00, insert
“
Tarrif Item	Description	Import Duty Rate	
1904.10.10	- Snacks	20%	
1904.10.90	- Other	5%	
”
(ba)	After tarrif item 1904.20.00, insert
“
Tarrif Item	Description	Import Duty Rate	
1904.20.10	- Snacks	20%	
1904.20.90	- Other	5%	
”
(c)	After tariff item 2201.90.00, insert
“
Tariff Item	Description	Import Duty Rate	
2201.90.10	- - - Kava (Piper Methysticum) Beverage	65%	
2201.90.90	- - - Others	40%	
”
(d)	After tariff item 2403.99.00, insert
“
Tariff Item	Description	Import Duty Rate	
24.04	Products containing tobacco, reconstituted tobacco, nicotine, or tobacco or nicotine substitutes, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body.		
	- Products intended for inhalation without combustion.		
2404.12.00	- - Other, containing nicotine	40%	
2404.19.00	- - Other	40%	
2404.91.00	- - For oral application 	40%	
2404.92.00	- - For transdermal application	40%	
2404.99.00	- - Other	40%	
”
(e)	After tariff item 8543.30.00, insert
“
Tariff Item	Description	Import Duty Rate	
8543.40.00	- Electronic cigarettes and similar personal electric vaporizing devices	40%	
”
(f)	After tariff item 8548.90.00, insert
“
Tariff Item	Description	Import Duty Rate	
85.49	Electrical and electronic waste and scrap		
	- Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators;		
8549.11.00	- - Waste and scrap of lead- acid accumulators; spent lead-acid accumulators 	30%	
8549.12.00	- - Other, containing lead, cadmium or mercury 	30%	
8549.13.00	- - Sorted by chemical type and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury 	30%	
8549.14.00	- - Unsorted and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury 	30%	
8549.19.00	- - Other 	30%	
8549.21.00	- - Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury- switches, glass from cathode ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) 	30%	
8549.29.00	- - Other 	30%	
8549.31.00	- - Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury- switches, glass from cathode ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)	30%	
8549.39.00	- - Other 	30%	
8549.91.00	- - Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury- switches, glass from cathode ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)	30%	
8549.99.00	- - Other 	30%	
”