Public Advice Products
The Public Advice Products Service
The existing Tariff Precedent system is being changed. The new system, the Public Advice Products System, retains Tariff Precedents, but also introduces a new product, Tariff Classification Guides. The Practice Statement which outlines the policy for this new service is currently in the consultative stage. A copy of the exposure draft of the Practice Statement is provided below for your information.
What are Public Advice Products?
Tariff's Public Advice Products are Tariff Precedents and Tariff Classification Guides (NEW). These are statements from Customs and Border Protection made to provide general advice about classification and classification issues.
A Tariff Precedent is specific to a tariff classification and provides advice on types of goods or classification issues relating to that classification.
Tariff Classification Guides are documents that provide advice on more complex issues or on on issues that span many classifications.
A Public Advice Product is not a Tariff Advice issued under the Advance Rulings framework. Tariff Advices give administratively binding advice on specific goods for a specific importer based on documentary and retained information provided by the applicant. A Public Advice Product does not give binding advice on a specific good, but provides a statement of the current thinking of Customs on a type of good, a class of goods or a classification issue.
Exposure Drafts
Prior to the final publication of Tariff Precedents and Tariff Classification Guides, an exposure draft will be provided on this page in order to allow for consultation and feedback on the clarity of the document. To provide comment, use the link in the Feedback section below.
Policy Drafts
Practice Statement - Tariff Precedents and Tariff Classification Guides - Closed for comments.
Tariff Precedent Drafts
3506-1 Thread Locker - open for comments until COB 30/5/2012
1901-1 Cereal based pellets - open for comments until COB 30/5/2012
8421-1 Air filters for respiratory masks or other apparatus of Chapter 90 - open for comomments until COB 30/5/2012
2812-1 Sulphur Hexafluoride - open for comments until COB 30/5/2012
8419-1 flat plate absorbers - open for comments until COB 25/5/2012
6211-1 Sari - open for comments until COB 25/5/2012
8539-1 compact-fluorescent lamps - open for comments until COB 25/5/2012
Previous precedent drafts are now included as finalised precedents in the 8 March 2012 list.
Tariff Classification Guide Drafts
TCG - covers and cases for portable electronic goods - COB 18/4/2012
The use of Section XVI Note 4 in Section XVI and Chapter 90 - ‘Functional Units’ - Closed for comments.
Thank you for your feedback on the exposure drafts. The deadline for providing comments has now passed. We are considering the comments we have received and once the documents are finalised, the final stage will be our internal approval process. We have left the draft documents in place so that you can refer to them in the meantime, should you wish to do so.
Current Public Advice Products
Tariff Precedents
Tariff Precedents Listed by Chapter - this PDF file contains all of the current precedents. The last update of this file was Thursday, 8 March 2012.
Tariff Classification Guides
The interpretation of tolerances in Tariff Concession Orders - 'Tolerances'
Feedback
We invite comments, suggestions and feedback on the precedent system via our email address - tariff@customs.gov.au.