7 FEBRUARY

CUSTOMS EDITION

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, 8703.90.01, 8704.21.01, 8704.22.01, 8704.23.01, 8704.31.01, 8704.32.01, 8704.90.01, 8706.00.01 and 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 February 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 February 1989 but shall at all times after revocation continue to apply to goods entered during its currency:

The New Zealand Gazette of 24 January 1989 (Customs Edition) at pages 254–256.

(A) CLASS I:
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 gearbox) may be built up into a ‘frame’ and the engine and gear box may be 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.

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

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 subject to the foregoing restrictions, be imported as the importer elects.

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

• Airdams 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;
• Horns;
• 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 restrainings excluding adjustable mechanisms and minor plastic attachments;
  • Headlinings other than those moulded to shape.
  • Rear parcel trays other than those moulded to shape.
• Seat belts;
• Upholsterers’ materials (such as flock, wadding, batting, fluting, liners, felts padding and foams) cut; moulded or fabricated to shape (excluding moulded resin bonded felt);
• Upholsterers’ textiles, fabrics, leathers or plastic sheeting, cut, moulded or fabricated to shape;
• Laminated and leaf undercarriage springs (not including shackles therefor);
• Melt sheets cut to shape;
• Pneumatic rubber tyres;
• Radio broadcast receivers designed for use in motor vehicles;
• Seat frame and spring frame assemblies including springs therefor;
• Seat reclining mechanisms, rotary type, being any reclining mechanisms that rely in their principle means of operation on the rotary movement of a planetary geared system of interfacing gears operating a rotary drive, thus enabling an infinitely discrete radial movement of the recliner arms;
• Spoliers of unhardened vulcanised rubber or artificial plastic materials;
• Springs, coiled suspension; excluding frustoconical coil springs;
• Tonneau covers manufactured from upholsterers’ textiles, fabrics, leathers or plastic sheetings cut or fabricated to shape;
• Wiring, looms or harnesses;
• Wheels of aluminium alloys.

(B) CLASS II
Commercial motor vehicles and road tractors

(i) Chassis, consisting of:

These goods shall not be imported in sub-assembled form.