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Import Control Exemption Notice (No. 1) 1968

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PURSUANT to regulation 16 of the Import Control Regulations 1964*, the Minister of Customs hereby gives notice as follows:

1. (a) This notice may be cited as the Import Control Exemption Notice (No. 1) 1968.
   (b) This notice shall come into force on 1 July 1968.

2. Goods of the class specified in the First and Second Schedules hereto, are hereby exempted from the requirements of a licence under the said regulations:
   (a) First Schedule—Goods, for the purposes of the Customs Tariff falling within the Tariff items in the Schedule, imported from and being the produce or manufacture of any country;
   (b) Second Schedule—Goods imported from and being the produce or manufacture of any country.

3. The exemption from the requirements of a licence under the said regulations in respect of the goods of the classes set fourth in the Third Schedule hereto included in the exempting notices shown in the Third Schedule is hereby withdrawn.

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FIRST SCHEDULE

EXEMPTIONS CREATED

Goods Classed Under Specific Tariff Items

Classes of Goods

Tariff Item No.

05.03.01 } Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up on a layer or between two layers of other material.
05.03.09

Ex 07.04.01 Herbs (including mixtures), in other than retail packs.

Ex 08.01.22 to }
Ex 08.01.29

Ex 08.05.01 } Edible nuts, fresh or dried, shelled or not (excluding desiccated coconut and nuts used chiefly for the extraction of oil),
Ex 08.05.02 in other than retail packages.
08.05.04

Ex 08.05.09 Flour of almonds, coconuts and of other nuts of Tariff Chapter 8.

11.04.01 } Ground-nuts (peanuts), in other than retail packages.
Ex 12.01.11
Ex 12.01.19

12.08.00 Locust beans, fresh or dried, whether or not kibbled or ground, but not further prepared; fruit kernels and other vegetable products of a kind used primarily for human food, not falling within any other Tariff heading.

Ex 14.05.00 Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included (except carrageen).

19.06.09 Empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products.

22.08.01 } Ethyl alcohol or neutral spirits, undenatured, containing not less than 140% of proof spirit, and denatured spirits of
22.08.03 to } any strength (other than rectified spirits of wine for fortifying New Zealand wines under such conditions as the Minister
22.08.09 may prescribe).

25.23.01 } Ciment fondu, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements (excluding Portland cement, other
Ex 25.23.09 than white), whether or not coloured or in the form of clinker.

26.01.11 to }
26.01.22

Ex 26.01.23 } Metallic ores and concentrates other than of the radioactive metals of Tariff Item 28.50.00 and of gold.
26.01.24

26.03.00 Ash and residues (other than from the manufacture of iron or steel), containing metals or metallic compounds.

27.10.35 White spirit in bulk in ships’ bottoms or in containers of a capacity of 1 gallon or more.

Ex Tariff Chapters Inorganic chemicals, organic chemicals, organic and inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of
28 and 29 radio-active elements and of isotopes, of Tariff Chapters 28 and 29, EXCLUDING the following:
Chlorine; sulphur, colloidal, sublimed and precipitated; hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, oleum, and carbon
dioxide, of other than C.P., B.P., and laboratory grades; ammonia in aqueous solution; sodium hydroxide (caustic
soda) in packages not exceeding 7 lb. net weight; zinc oxide; calcium hydro-oxide and copper oxide; copper sulphate
and iron sulphate, other than ferrous sulphate on declaration by a manufacturer for use as or with fertilisers; salts
of metallic acids other than sodium molybdate and ammonium vanadate when declared by a manufacturer for use as
or with fertilisers; and potassium permanganate; silver nitrate; 2:4 dichlorophenol, 2:4:5 trichlorophenate,
trichlorophenols, parachlor-ortho-cresol, sodium 2:4:6 trichlorophenate; formaldehyde; oleic acid; 2:4 dichloro-
phenoxyacetic acid (2-4D) and 2:4:5 trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2:4:5-T), and salts and eters thereof; 4 chloro-2
methylphenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) and esters thereof; sodium 2:4 dichlorophenoxyacetate acid (2:4D sodium) and
esters thereof; rennet; sugars, chemically pure; hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen; nitric acid; sulphonic acids; carbon
dioxide of C.P., B.P., and laboratory grades; anhydrous ammonia; sodium hypochlorite; sodium bisulphate and
aluminium sulphate; refined naphthalene; sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons; sodium
silicate in liquid forms; gaseous hydrocarbons; nitrous oxide.

Ex 34.02.00 Organic surface-active agents and surface-active preparations and washing preparations, whether or not containing
soap, admissible under Part II, Reference 10.8 of the Customs Tariff.

Ex 39.02.54 } Polyethylene tubing on declaration by a manufacturer for use by him in making cartridges of Tariff Chapter 93.
Ex 39.02.59

Ex 40.01.01 } Natural and synthetic rubber, compounded before coagulation otherwise than with carbon black or silica with or without
Ex 40.02.01 the addition of mineral oils (excluding mixtures known as “masterbatch”).

40.12.01 } Hygienic and pharmaceutical articles, of unhardened vulcanised rubber, with or without fittings of hardened rubber
40.12.09 (excluding: water beds, water cushions and pneumatic mattresses. pillows and cushions, specially suited for hospital
use; ice bags and ice caps; hot-water bags and hot-water bottles; urinals designed for wear; teats).

40.15.09 Scrap, waste and powder, of hardened rubber.

40.16.01 } Hygienic and pharmaceutical articles of hardened rubber (ebonite and vulcanite).
40.16.02

43.01.01 to Raw furskins.
43.01.09

48.01.10 Newsprint, machine-made, in rolls or sheets.

48.11.09 Window transparencies of paper.

Ex Tariff Textile yarn and thread classed under items of Tariff Chapters 50 to 57 EXCLUDING the following:
Chapters
50 to 57
(a) Yarn and thread containing in any proportion man-made discontinuous fibres and weighing more than 150 grammes
per 9,000 metres.
(b) Yarn and thread of continuous nylon fibre, other than sewing thread.
(c) Yarn of wool or containing wool, other than mending yarn containing wool; yarn of fine animal hair, horsehair or
other coarse animal hair; yarn and thread of ramie and other yarn and thread of vegetable textile fibres other
than sewing threads.
(d) “Bulked”, “stretch”, or “texturised” continuous synthetic yarns other than polyurethane elastomeric yarns.
(e) Carpet yarn.
(f) Yarn and thread of flax not being sewing threads; yarn and thread of true hemp.
(g) Strip (artificial straw and the like) and monofilament (other than polyurethane elastomeric monofilament, and
yarn or strip consisting of a core of aluminium foil or of a core of plastic film whether or not coated with
aluminium dust, sandwiched by means of plain or coloured adhesive between two layers of artificial plastic
material, e.g. “Lurex” yarn), and imitation catgut, of synthetic or regenerated fibre.

Ex Tariff Textile fabrics and glass fabrics classified under items of Tariff Chapters 50 to 58 and 70, EXCLUDING the following:
Chapters 50 to 58
and 70
(a) Where such fabrics are backed or laminated with foam plastic.
(b) Woven pile fabrics and chenille fabrics of a kind used to upholster furniture other than velvets, velveteens, velours
and plushes, containing man-made discontinuous fibres but not containing sheep’s or lambs’ wool or fine
animal hair, and weighing more than 5½ oz. per square yard.
(c) Textile fabrics quilted.
(d) Tyre cord fabric.