NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 146

Tariff Industry Assistance (Decision) Notice No. 1989/3—continued

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of August 1989.

M. J. BELGRAVE, Chief Executive.

DETERMINATION OF THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE UNDER SECTION 14 OF THE TARIFF ACT 1988

(1) The goods listed in Column Two of this Notice may be entered as unassembled motor vehicles (Tariff items 8701.20.01, 8703.21.01, 8703.22.01, 8703.23.01, 8703.24.01, 8703.31.01, 8703.32.01, 8703.33.01, 8704.21.01, 8704.22.01, 8704.32.01, 8704.90.01, 8706.00.09) provided they are not further manufactured than specified in Column Three. None of the parts entered in these Tariff items shall be used otherwise than in the assembly, completion or manufacture, from the one shipment of parts, of one or more motor vehicles. Separate goods and conditions are determined in this Notice for each of the classes of vehicle identified in Column One.

(2) The Minister may allow goods to be entered at variance with this Determination and may make any such variation conditional.

(3) For the purpose of this Determination an 'omnibus' means a motor vehicle designed solely or principally for the carriage of ten or more seated persons (including the driver).

(4) This Determination shall come into force from the first day of September 1989 and may be amended from time-to-time by notice in the Gazette.

(5) The Determination in the following Gazette is hereby revoked on the first day of September 1989 but shall at all times after revocation continue to apply to goods entered during its currency:

The New Zealand Gazette (Customs Edition) at pages 254-266.

CLASS I:

(A) Motor vehicles (other than omnibuses), being sedans, station wagons, utilities, vans capable of carrying passengers and goods or a combination of passengers and goods, chassis/cabs, providing that the gross vehicle weight of such vehicles does not exceed 3,500 kg

(i) Chassis, consisting of:
A metal underbody, side members, end members, cross members, sub-frame, tank supports, brackets for fixing engine, springbrackets, engine, and gearbox.

These goods (except the engine and 'frame' and the engine and gear box) may be built up into a 'fully assembled and attached to a frame. The frame must not be further assembled but such other minor fittings, for example, stays, lugs, and brackets as are ordinarily affixed to the frame may be so affixed.

May be built up into the form of a 'shell', with doors attached thereto. The shell may have a coat of grease, oil, red oxide, or similar protective coating, not including cellulose or pyroxylin or similar lacquer. The shell shall not be advanced in manufacture beyond the stage where the necessary welding processes have been performed; for example, the seams shall not be soldered, filled or smoothed. The shell may not be attached to the model underbody or frame or to parts affixed thereto as referred to in (i) above but may be subject to the foregoing restrictions, be imported in such condition as the importer elects.

(ii) Bodies, the following parts:
Panels, and framework (if any)

The components nominated below, if imported to be used in the assembly, compilation or manufacture of Class I motor vehicles must be entered in accordance with the appropriate Tariff item in Part I of the Tariff:

• Airbags excluding those which form an integral part of the vehicle body or an integral part of the bumper;
• Battery cables and earth straps;
• 'Bull bar' type bumpers;
• Electric accumulators;
• Exhaust systems (comprising piping and mufflers);
• Exterior rear vision mirrors excluding those which are an integral part of the vehicle design or are electrically or manually internally adjusted; and excluding electrically heated rear vision mirrors
• Glass, curved or flat;
• Hub caps, hubcentres, full wheel covers, wheel trim bands and discs and wheel rimbellishers;
• Ignition coils;
• Interior trim components of hardboard, cardboard or similar materials, leather and plastic sheetings; viz:
  • Armrests and door-pulls of unhardened vulcanised rubber or artificial plastic materials excluding those integrally moulded into door panels;
  • Door panels excluding base boards moulded to shape and excluding fittings of moulded artificial plastic material and attaching hardware;
  • Floor coverings, cut fabricated or moulded to shape excluding those moulded from plastic or rubber;
  • Head restraints excluding adjustable mechanisms and minor plastic attachments;