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The following highlights changes that were to made to Customs Procedure Codes ( Extended and National ), as well as Deletions and Additions:
The National Tariff of Belize has been prepared to implement the Common External Tariff of the Caribbean Community established by
decision of the Council for Trade and Economic
Development (COTED).
It is based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Ninth Edition 2022). As with the previous tariffs, it is comprehensive and systematically organized according to easily understood principles.
This text of the Common External Tariff of the Caribbean Community, established by decision
of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) contains:
- The List of Abbreviations and Symbols used in this publication;
- The Titles of Sections and Chapters;
- General Rules for the Interpretation of the Harmonized System;
- General Rules Explanation
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- The Schedule of Rates;
- The List of Conditional Duty Exemptions;
- The List of Items Ineligible for Duty Exemption.
The General Rules for the Interpretation of the Harmonized System provide the principles on
which classification under that System is based and are an integral part of the classification
structure of the Schedule of Rates.
The rates of duty shown in the Schedule of Rates will be applicable to imports from third
countries into the Member States of the Caribbean Community as well as to goods traded among
the Member States of the Caribbean Community which do not qualify for Community treatment.
Reference to the pages of the Schedule of Rates is included in the listing of Sections and
Chapters to permit easy identification in the Schedule of Rates.
The List of Items Ineligible for Duty Exemption includes those items produced in the Caribbean
Community in quantities which are considered adequate to justify the application of tariff
protection. These items will not be eligible for the grant of exemption from duty (in whole or in
part) where they are imported for use in Industry, Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry and Mining.
Except where the context otherwise requires, "per cent" or the symbol "%" means percentage of
value.
Ministry of Finance
Belmopan, Belize
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 Abbreviations and Symbols |
| List of Titles of Sections and Chapters |
| General Rules and Interpretation |
| Section 1 Notes |
| Chapter 1 : Live Animals |
| Chapter 2 : Meat and Edible Meat Offal |
| Chapter 3 : Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates |
| Chapter 4 : Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included |
| Chapter 5 : Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included |
| Section II Notes |
| Chapter 6 : Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage |
| Chapter 7 : Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers |
| Chapter 8 : Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons |
| Chapter 9 : Coffee, tea, maté and spices |
| Chapter 10 : Cereals |
| Chapter 11 : Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten |
| Chapter 12 : Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder |
| Chapter 13 : Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts |
| Chapter 14 : Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included |
| Section III Notes |
| Chapter 15 : Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes |
| Section IV Notes |
| Chapter 16 : Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates. |
| Chapter 17 : Sugars and sugar confectionery |
| Chapter 18 : Cocoa and cocoa preparations |
| Chapter 19 : Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastry cooks' products |
| Chapter 20 : Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants |
| Chapter 21 : Miscellaneous edible preparations |
| Chapter 22 : Beverages, spirits and vinegar |
| Chapter 23 : Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder |
| Chapter 24 : Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes |
| Section V Notes |
| Chapter 25 : Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement |
| Chapter 26 : Ores, slag and ash |
| Chapter 27 : Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes |
| Section VI Notes |
| Chapter 28 : Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements
or of isotopes |
| Chapter 29 : Organic chemicals |
| Chapter 30 : Pharmaceutical products |
| Chapter 31 : Fertilizers |
| Chapter 32 : Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes;putty and other mastics; inks |
| Chapter 33 : Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations |
| Chapter 34 : Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes,
polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles,modelling pastes, "dental waxes" and dental preparations
with a basis of plaster |
| Chapter 35 : Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes |
| Chapter 36 : Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations |
| Chapter 37 : Photographic or cinematographic goods |
| Chapter 38 : Miscellaneous chemical products |
| Section VII Notes |
| Chapter 39 : Plastics and articles thereof |
| Chapter 40 : Rubber and articles thereof |
| Section VIII Notes |
| Chapter 41 : Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather |
| Chapter 42 : Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather |
| Chapter 43 : Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof |
| Section IX Notes |
| Chapter 44 : Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal |
| Chapter 45 : Cork and articles of cork |
| Chapter 46 : Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork |
| Section X Notes |
| Chapter 47 : Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard |
| Chapter 48 : Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard |
| Chapter 49 : Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans |
| Section XI Notes |
| Chapter 50 : Silk |
| Chapter 51 : Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric |
| Chapter 52 : Cotton |
| Chapter 53 : Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn |
| Chapter 54 : Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials |
| Chapter 55 : Man-made staple fibres |
| Chapter 56 : Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof |
| Chapter 57 : Carpets and other textile floor coverings |
| Chapter 58 : Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery |
| Chapter 59 : Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use |
| Chapter 60 : Knitted or crocheted fabrics |
| Chapter 61 : Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted |
| Chapter 62 : Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted |
| Chapter 63 : Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags |
| Section XII Notes |
| Chapter 64 : Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles |
| Chapter 65: Headgear and parts thereof |
| Chapter 66 : Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof |
| Chapter 67 : Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair |
| Section XIII Notes |
| Chapter 68 : Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials |
| Chapter 69 : Ceramic products |
| Chapter 70 : Glass and glassware |
| Section XIV Notes |
| Chapter 71 : Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles
thereof; imitation jewellery; coin |
| Section XV Notes |
| Chapter 72 : Iron and steel |
| Chapter 73 : Articles of iron or steel |
| Chapter 74 : Copper and articles thereof |
| Chapter 75 : Nickel and articles thereof |
| Chapter 76 : Aluminum and articles thereof |
| Chapter 77 : (Reserved for possible future use in the Harmonized System) |
| Chapter 78 : Lead and articles thereof |
| Chapter 79 : Zinc and articles thereof |
| Chapter 80 : Tin and articles thereof |
| Chapter 81 : Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof |
| Chapter 82 : Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; part thereof of base metal |
| Chapter 83 : Miscellaneous articles of base metal |
| Section XVI Notes |
| Chapter 84 : Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof |
| Chapter 85 : Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders
and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles |
| Section XVII Notes |
| Chapter 86 : Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings
and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds |
| Chapter 87 : Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof |
| Chapter 88 : Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof |
| Chapter 89 : Ships, boats and floating structures |
| Section XVIII Notes |
| Chapter 90 : Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts
and accessories thereof |
| Chapter 91 : Clocks and watches and parts thereof |
| Chapter 92 : Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles |
| Section XIX Notes |
| Chapter 93 : Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof |
| Section XX Notes |
| Chapter 94 : Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings,
not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
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| Chapter 95 : Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof |
| Chapter 96 : Miscellaneous manufactured articles |
| Section XXI Notes |
| Chapter 97 : Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques |
| Chapter 98 : Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles |
| List of Conditional duty Exemptions |
| Part 1 : List of Commodities Ineligible for Conditional Duty Exemptions |
| Part 2 : List of Commodities Ineligible for Conditional Duty Exemptions |
| Conversation Factors |
