New Zealand Gazette – 1985 – No. 14

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✨ Trade Licence Applications



338 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 14

ANZCERT WHITE GOODS ARRANGEMENT: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR UNALLOCATED 1985 CALENDAR YEAR EXCLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN LICENCE

  1. Applications are called for the following amounts of unallocated licence available for the calendar year 1985 under the Australia – New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA) Whitegoods Arrangement:
Item Code Goods Amount of Licence Available
84.590 Domestic refrigerators and freezers, electric or non-electric, including combined refrigerator and freezer units 18,305 units
Ex 84.625 Domestic dishwashers, including glass washers 3,041 units
Ex 84.780 Domestic clothes-washing machines, including combined clothes-washing and dry machines 7,714 units
Ex 84.780 Domestic rotary tumble-type clothes dryers 3,668 units
Ex 84.570 Domestic room air-conditioners having a nominally rated compressor total cooling capacity of 7 kw or less and designed for use without ducting—other than designed for window-mounting 60 units
  1. Application Conditions

(a) Applications from new and existing Whitegoods Arrangement licence-holders will be accepted. However, new applicants will be given preference.

(b) Applicants must:
(i) Be registered New Zealand companies
(ii) Be able to demonstrate their ongoing involvement in the whitegoods business and their ability to satisfactorily service the product during its working life
(iii) Show that they have a confirmed source of supply from an Australian manufacturer.

(c) In considering the allocation and any subsequent reallocation of exclusive access, regard shall be given to applications supported by industry rationalisation or complementation proposals.

(d) Importers will be required to confirm within the first 6 months of each import licensing period that the allocation for that period will be fully utilised. Any unutilised exclusive access may be reallocated by the Department of Trade and Industry.

(e) The names of New Zealand holders of exclusive access and the Australian manufacturers involved will be published.

(f) Applications should be received by the Department by 4 March 1985. Applications received after that date will be considered subject to licence availability.

(g) Applications should be sent to "The Executive Officer, General Industries 2, Department of Trade and Industry, Private Bag, Wellington, Attention: Mrs C. Parlane".

(h) Licences will be issued for the calendar year 1 January to 31 December 1985. However, extensions to 31 March 1986 may be available on application to Trade and Industry.

(i) Licence issues in subsequent years will be on the basis of import performance.

(j) The licences issued will be for goods of Australian origin only, i.e. products which meet the criteria for Australian origin, as contained in the Customs Regulations 1968, as amended. The New Zealand/Australian Rules of Origin are detailed in Article 3 of the ANZCER Trade Agreement.

  1. Details of the Whitegoods Arrangement are set out in the ANZCER Trade Agreement, Annex C, Part VI (pages 85–87) and Annex C Attachments VII, VIII, IX (pages 106–109).

BY AUTHORITY: P. D. HASSELBERG, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1985

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🏭 Call for Applications for Unallocated Exclusive Australian Licence under Whitegoods Arrangement (continued from previous page)

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