9 MARCH

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, 8704.32.01) 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 came into force on the first day of July 1992 and may be amended from time-to-time by notice in the Gazette.

CLASS I:

(A) Motor vehicles (other than omnibuses), 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: ‘shell’, with doors attached thereto. Panels, and framework (if any)

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.

May be built up into the form of a shell.

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.

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:

• Airbags excluding those which form an integral part of the vehicle body or an integral part of the bumper;
• Badges 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; but excluding glass fully edge encapsulated by the injection moulding process;
• 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, hubcentres, 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 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 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;
  • Upholsters’ materials (such as flock, wadding, batting, fluting, liners, felts, padding and foams) cut, moulded or fabricated to shape (excluding moulded resin bonded felt);
  • Upholsters’ 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 including combination radio cassette player units designed for use in motor vehicles;
• Seat frame and spring frame assemblies including springs therefor;
• Spollers of unhardened vulcanised rubber or plastic materials;
• Springs, coiled suspension; excluding frustoconical coil springs;
• Tonneau covers manufactured from upholsters’ 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 with a gross vehicle weight

(i) Chassis, consisting of:

These goods shall not be imported in sub-assemblies consisting of more than one of the listed components.