Draft Law of Ukraine

"On Amendment of Customs Tariff of Ukraine"

Majority of amendments suppose establishing of new commodity items without any change of import duties. At the same time it is proposed to alter rates of import duties for certain products, in particular:

a new sub-item is introduced for one of the types of wild rice (code 1008 90 90 10) and privileged and full rates of import duty are set forth in the amount 1 EURO per 1 kg (privileged duty rates for other grains amount to 0.05 EURO per 1 kg, full rates – 0.1 EURO per 1 kg.)

new sub-items for alcohol drinks are established for tequila and mescal; they will be imposed with import duty at the rate of 3% (now this rate is 7.5 EURO per 1 L 100% alcohol). Such rates are supposed to come into force as soon as Ukraine access WTO;

reduce duties for such kinds of chemical compositions as dikamba (code 2918 90 20 00), tyuram (code 2918 90 20 00), carbendasim (code 2933 90 95 10)

increase rates of import duties for some insecticides (codes 3808 10 10 00 and 3808 10 40 10), fungicides (codes 3808 20 30, 3808 20 40, 3808 20 50), herbicides (codes 3808 30 11, 3808 30 15, 3808 30 27).

It should be mentioned that certain agreements have been reached relating import duty rates during negotiations with courtiers –members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Therefore reducing import duty rates for some alcohol drinks the Cabinet of Ministers strives to fix the agreed import duty rates in national legislation.