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Tariff 2002 Revision

 CUSTOMS TARIFF LAW (2002 Revision)

Law 18 of 1990 consolidated with Laws 23 of 1991 (part), 4 of 1997 (part), 20 of 1998 (part), 2 of 2000 (part), 1 of 2001 and 36 of 2001.

Revised under the authority of the Law Revision Law (1999 Revision).

Originally enacted -

Law 18 of 1990-4th September, 1990

Law 23 of 1991-12th December, 1991

Law 4 of 1997-24th March, 1997

Law 20 of 1998-15th February, 1999

Law 2 of 2000- 13th April, 2000.

Law 1 of 2001-19th April 2001

Law 36 of 2001-31st December 2001.







Consolidated and revised this 30th. day of April, 2002.

Note (not forming part of the Law): This revision replaces the 2001 Revision which should now be discarded.


CUSTOMS TARIFF LAW (2002 Revision)

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

  1. Short title
  2. Definitions
  3. Duties of Customs charged
  4. Waiver of duties: Cayman Brac, Little Cayman

First Schedule: Duties of Customs on imports

Second Schedule: Duty free imported goods

Third Schedule: Rates of package tax

Fourth Schedule: General rules for the interpretation of the Tariff


CUSTOMS TARIFF LAW (2002 Revision)

1. This Law may be cited as the Customs Tariff Law (2002 Revision).  

2.

  • The expressions defined in section 2 of the Customs Law (1998 Revision) shall apply in any case where they appear in this Law.  
  •  In code number 27.03 in the First Schedule-

    • “electricity” means electric current or energy or any like agency; and
    • undertaker” means a person in contractual relationship with the Governor in Council for the purpose of generating electricity and supplying it to the public for reward.

  •  The provisions of the Fourth Schedule shall apply in the classification of the goods specified in the First Shedule.

3.

  • There shall be charged, collected and paid through Customs to the Treasury upon goods imported into the Islands and enumerated in the First Schedule the several duties therein specified.
  • The goods enumerated in the Second Schedule shall be admitted into the Islands free of duty subject to such conditions as may be imposed by the Governor or the Collector, as the case may be.
  • The goods enumerated in the Third Schedule shall be chargeable with Package Tax at the rates shown therein.
4. The Governor may, from time to time, waive or reduce any or all of the duties specified under the following code numbers in the First Schedule in relation to any person or group of persons in Cayman Brac or Little Cayman- 03.02, 24.01, 24.02, 27.01, 38.01, 87.02, 87.05, 87.11, 88.01, 89.01, 89.02, 89.03,89.04 and 93.01.


FIRST SCHEDULE (Section 3(1))

Duties of Customs on Imports


Section I

Live animals and animal products


01.01

Animals, live: stud male and breeding stock.

Free

01.21

Poultry, live.

Free

01.31

Birds, live (pets).

Free

01.32

Other domestic pets (not fish).

Free

01.99

Other live animals (except turtle and fish).

15%

02.01

Beef, fresh, chilled, frozen.

15%

02.02

Salt beef.

Free

02.11

Poultry carcasses and parts of poultry, fresh, chilled or frozen but not cooked or further prepared.

Free

02.21

Other edible meat and offals, whether fresh, refrigerated, frozen, corned, salted, in brine, dried or pickled, but not further prepared or cooked.

15%

03.01

Fish, fresh, chilled, frozen, pickled, salted or dried, but not cooked or further prepared or preserved.

Free

03.02

Shellfish and crustaceans, fresh, whether live or not, chilled or frozen.

10%

03.21

Turtle, live.

Free

03.31

Fish, live, imported as pets.

Free

04.01

Milk and cream, fresh, preserved, concentrated, whether sweetened or not.

Free

04.03

Flavoured milk, yoghourt and ice cream.

20%

04.11

Butter, natural, fresh or salted.

Free

04.21

Cheese.

Free

04.31

Birds’ eggs and egg yolks, fresh, dried or otherwise preserved.

15%

05.01

Tortoise shell and turtle shell, unmanufactured.

Free

05.99

Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified.

20%




Section II

Vegetable products


06.01

Live plants, trees or plant tissue for propagation or cultivation.

Free

06.02

Other live plants (including ornamental plants for landscaping or decoration whether bearing flowers or not)


20%

06.11

Cut flowers and foliage.

10%

07.01

Onions, Shallots and Irish potatoes, fresh.

Free

07.09

Other vegetables, fresh or frozen.

15%

07.21

Peas and beans, dried.

Free

07.31

Other vegetables, dried, pickled or otherwise prepared, including canned vegetables, etc.


20%

08.01

(i) Fruit, fresh, chilled or frozen but not further prepared, excluding the items listed in subparagraph(ii).


15%


(ii) The following fruit, whether fresh, chilled or frozen, but not further prepared-

avocado pears, bananas, plantains, citrus fruit, mangoes, papayas, breadfruit, june plums (golden apples, pommes cythere), naseberries (sapodilla), passion fruit, sour-sops, West Indian cherries, (Barbados cherries, acerola), tomatoes, okra, peppers, pumpkins, sweet-sops, melons, star fruit (carambola), cucumbers.








15%

08.21

Fruit, dried or further prepared, including nuts.

20%

08.31

Fruit and vegetable juice, unsweetened.

20%

09.01

Coffee, fresh, ground or otherwise prepared.

Free

09.11

Tea and tea concentrates.

Free

09.21

Cocoa and drinking chocolate.

Free

09.31

Vanilla and other spices.

20%

10.01

Grains, natural, husked or broken, but not further prepared.


Free

10.11

Macaroni, spaghetti, raw, whether packaged or not.

Free

12.01

Seeds, for propagation or cultivation.

Free

14.99

Crude vegetable material, not elsewhere specified.

20%




Section III

Animal and vegetable oils and fats and their products


15.01

Lard.

Free

15.11

Margarine.

Free

15.21

Shortening.

20%

15.31

Coconut oil, fixed vegetable oils and fats, cooking oils, castor oil, linseed oil, beeswax.

20%

15.99

Animal oils, fats and greases, not elsewhere specified.

20%




Section IV

Prepared foodstuffs, beverages and tobacco


16.01

Prepared meats and poultry, including dinners with meat.

20%

16.02

Fish, shellfish, etc., prepared, cooked or processed.

20%

17.01

Beet and cane sugar, raw.

Free

17.11

Beet and cane sugar, refined.

Free




17.21

Honey, syrups, sugar confectionery (excluding chocolate).

20%

18.01

Chocolate confectionery.

20%

19.01

Cereal flours, groats and meal (including breakfast cereals).

Free

19.05

Bread loaves, whole or sliced

Free

19.21

Bakery products including biscuits, rolls, buns and similar products but excluding products under code number 19.05


20%

19.99

Cereals and cereal preparations, not elsewhere specified.

Free

21.01

Prepared baking powders.

Free

21.99

Miscellaneous edible products, not elsewhere specified.

20%

22.01

Purified, desalinated and natural waters, other than aerated waters.


20%

22.02

Aerated water.

25%

22.11

Flavoured aerated waters, non-alcoholic beers and wines.

25%

22.12

Still non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified.

20%

22.21

Ale, beer and other malt liquors.

$1.50 per litre

22.22

Ciders and meads.

$1.50 per litre

22.23

Wine coolers not exceeding seven per cent alcohol content.

$1.50 per litre

22.31

Table wines, red, white or rose.

$3.00 per litre

22.32

Dessert wines, including port, sherry, vermouth and other fortified or flavoured wines containing under thirty per cent alcohol.


$4.50 per litre

22.33

Champagne.

25% of c.i.f. value

22.34

Other sparkling wines.

$3.75 per litre

22.41

Spirits, unsweetened, containing less than fifty per cent by volume of alcohol.

$10.50 per litre

22.42

Spirits, unsweetened, containing fifty per cent or more by volume of alcohol.

$14.25 per litre

22.43

Spirits, sweetened and flavoured, including liqueurs.

$12.00 per litre

23.01

Compound feeds for cattle, pigs, poultry and turtle.

Free

23.02

Pet food.

20%

24.01

Manufactured tobacco - cigarettes.

$52.50 per 1,000

24.02

Manufactured tobacco - cigars.

100%

24.03

Manufactured tobacco - for chewing.

$1.35 per lb.

24.09

Other manufactured tobacco.

85%

24.11

Unmanufactured tobacco.

$1.35 per lb.

24.99

Manufactures from tobacco substitutes (e.g. herbal cigarettes).


85%




Section V

Mineral products


25.01

Common salt.

Free

25.11

Cement.

20%

25.21

Prepared pottery clay.

Free

25.99

Crude minerals, not elsewhere specified.

20%

27.01

Motor gasoline.

50 cents per gallon

27.02

Diesel oil excluding diesel oil under code number 27.03

60 cents per gallon

27.03

Diesel oil imported for supply to an undertaker

50 cents per gallon

27.11

Aviation gasoline.

25 cents per gallon

27.12

Jet fuel (kerosene).

25 cents per gallon

27.21

Lamp oil.

Free

27.31

Other fuel oils and basic petroleum products.

20%

27.41

Coal, coke, peat, etc.

20%

27.51

Propane, butane, other gases.

20%




Section Vl

Products of the chemical or allied industries


28.01

Inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere specified.

20%

29.01

Insulin and sulphate of quinine and all alkaloids or salts of cinchona but not including quinine compounded with other drugs.

Free

29.03

Lymph for human vaccination, vaccines, serums and antitoxins for human and animal diseases.

Free

29.99

Organic chemicals, not elsewhere specified.

20%

30.01

Medicinal/pharmaceutical goods, not elsewhere specified.

10%

31.01

Crude fertilisers.

Free

31.11

Manufactured fertilisers.

Free

32.01

Household paints, varnishes, lacquers.

20%

32.02

Bleaches.

15%

32.03

Ceramic colours, glazes and frits.

Free

33.01

Bay rum and bay waters.

$10.00 per gallon

33.02

Perfume.

Free

33.03

Perfumery, other than perfume.

25%

33.09

Other toilet preparations and cosmetics.

20%

34.01

Soap.

15%

34.02

Washing soda.

15%

34.03

Detergents.

15%

34.09

Washing preparations, polish, cleansers, waxes, not elsewhere specified.

20%

36.01

Explosives, pyrotechnic products, including fireworks.

20%

38.01

Disinfectants, insecticides, fungicides, vermin poisons, herbicides, etc.

15%

38.99

Miscellaneous chemical products, not elsewhere specified.

20%




Section VII

Plastics, rubber, and articles thereof


39.01

Plastics in primary and semi-processed form.

20%

39.99

Articles of plastic, not elsewhere specified.

20%

40.01

Rubber products, not elsewhere specified.

20%




Section VIII

Leather and articles thereof, travel goods, handbags and similar containers


42.01

Goods manufactured wholly or mainly of genuine leather, excluding footwear and furniture.

Free

42.12

Travel goods, handbags, suitcases, camera cases, and other similar containers, not of leather.

20%




Section IX

Wood and articles of wood


44.01

Lumber.

15%

44.02

Cork and other lightly worked wood.

20%

44.11

Veneers, plywood, compound or constituted wood.

20%

44.21

Wooden hand carvings.

Free

44.99

Cork and wood manufactures, not elsewhere specified.

20%




Section X

Paper and paperboard and articles thereof


48.01

Paper, paperboard and articles thereof and of paper pulp.

20%

49.01

Reading material such as printed books, manuscripts, etc.

Free

49.02

Printed forms and similar stationery; greeting cards, newspapers printed overseas containing predominantly matters of local interest.

20%



Section Xl

Textiles, textile articles and clothing



50.01

Flags of all nations.

Free


50.11

Printed cotton piece goods manufactured in and imported direct from Europe.

Free


50.12

Lace piece goods.

Free


50.13

Textile mosquito netting.

Free


50.14

Knitting wool.

Free


50.21

Manufactures of Irish linen, imported direct from Ireland.

10%


50.22

Pure silk and articles manufactured wholly of pure silk other than clothing.

10%


50.23

Tapestry and articles manufactured wholly of tapestry.

10%


50.24

Other textile piece goods.

10%


50.41

Floor coverings, carpets, rugs.

20%


50.51

Bed, table, kitchen, toilet linen, drapes and blinds.

20%


50.99

Other manufactured textile goods, manufactures of lace (other than clothing) not elsewhere specified.

20%


61.01

Clothing and accessories of wool.

Free


61.02

Cotton gloves decorated with embroidery or lace.

Free


61.03

Leather clothing.

Free


61.11

Clothing and accessories of silk.

10%


61.12

Clothing and accessories of Irish linen.

10%


61.21

Clothing and accessories of lace.

20%


61.91

Clothing and accessories of other textiles (including man-made fabrics).

20%


61.99

Worn clothing and worn textile articles, rags.

20%






Section XII

Footwear



64.01

Footwear of all types.

20%






Section XIII

Articles of stone, cement, plaster; ceramic products; glassware



68.01

Lime, fabricated and refractory construction materials, not elsewhere specified.

20%


69.01

Porcelain and bone chinaware.

Free


69.02

Domestic pottery, earthenware and stoneware (other than porcelain and bone china), whether or not decorated, fancy or ornamental.

10%


69.03

Statuettes and other ornamental ceramic articles.

Free


69.11

Ceramic sanitary and plumbing fixtures.

20%


69.19

Other ceramic household articles.

20%


70.01

Crystal glassware.

Free


70.02

Glassware, other than crystal glassware.

20%






Section XIV

Precious and semi-precious stones, precious metals, and manufactures thereof



71.01

Gold, bullion and coin.

Free


71.02

Scrap gold.

20%


71.11

Coins and bullion not of gold.

Free


71.21

Precious and semi-precious stones and imitation jewel stones.

10%


71.22

Pearls, natural, cultured or artificial; and black or pink coral.

Free


71.31

Articles of precious metal, or rolled precious metal other than jewellery.

Free


71.32

Jewellery containing black or pink coral.

20%


71.33

Other jewellery, of precious metals, precious and semi-precious stones and imitation jewel stones.

10%


71.34

Other jewellery, not of precious metal.

20%


71.99

Scrap of precious metals except gold.

20%






Section XV

Base metals and articles of base metal



72.01

Iron and steel bars, rods, angles, shapes, sections and other iron/steel basic products.

20%


73.01

Structures/parts of structures of iron, steel or aluminium.

20%


73.02

Cutlery and dishes of stainless steel and electroplated nickel silver.

Free


73.03

Metal mosquito netting.

Free


73.04

Fence wire.

15%


73.05

Nails and wire staples.

15%


73.06

Hand tools, non-electrical.

15%


74.01

Non-ferrous metals and their basic products.

20%


83.01

Office and stationery supplies of metal, not elsewhere specified.

20%


83.02

Other metal goods, not elsewhere specified.

20%






Section XVI

Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment



84.01

Power generating (not electricity) machinery and equipment (including internal combustion engines for car and boat), and parts thereof.

20%


84.02

Construction and mining machinery and parts thereof.

20%


84.03

Metal working machinery.

20%


84.09

General industrial machinery and equipment/parts, not elsewhere specified.

20%


84.11

ADP equipment and parts.

20%


84.12

Other office machines and parts.

20%


84.21

Domestic refrigerators and freezers.

20%


84.99