10 SEPTEMBER

CUSTOMS EDITION

2895

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, 8704.21.09, 8704.22.01, 8704.23.01, 8704.31.01, 8704.31.09, 8704.32.01, 8704.90.01, 8704.90.09, 8706.00.01 and 8708.00.09) 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 January 1991 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 January 1991 but shall at all times after revocation continue to apply to goods entered during its currency:

The New Zealand Gazette of 28 May 1990 (Customs Edition) at pages 1886-1888.

(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.

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

These goods (except the engine and gearbox) may be built up into a ‘frame’ and the engine and gear 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.

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 in such condition 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;
Bumpers for cars, vans and utilities made out of plastic material and hot foil stamped not being an integral part of a MV front grill or light fitting;
Exterior rear vision mirrors excluding the following:
(a) Those which are an integral part of the vehicle design or are electrically or manually internally adjusted
(b) Electrically heated rear vision mirrors
(c) Convex exterior rear vision mirrors;
Battery cables and earth straps;
‘Bull Bar’ type bumpers;
Electric accumulators;
Exhaust systems (comprising piping and mufflers), excluding flexible exhaust systems;
Glass, curved or flat;
High level brake lights not being an integral part of a motor vehicle or designed for attaching by screw or bolt to a rear window
Hub caps, hubcovers, full wheel covers, wheel trim bands and discs and wheel rimbellishers, excluding pressed steel wheel half covers;
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 and hard plastic moulded arm rests and door pulls;
• 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;
• 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 combination radio cassette player units 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