Agreement between the Government of India and the
Government of the United States of American relating to the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Geneva, 15 June 1962


The Government of the United States of America and the Government of India,

HAvING carried on tariff negotiations pursuant to Article XXVIII bis of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade at the 1960-61 Tariff Conference of the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement, and

DESIRING to enter immediately into an agreement without awaiting the preparation of a Protocol embodying the results of that Conference,

AGREE as follows

I

The provisions of the schedule of each party annexed hereto shall be applied by it as if this Agreement were a Protocol of Supplementary Concessions to the General Agreement.

II

The Contracting Parties to the General Agreement are requested to exercise the same functions with respect to the schedules annexed to this Agreement as they would exercise if these schedules were schedules to the General Agreement.

III

The provisions of this Agreement relative to the schedule of a party to this Agreement shall enter into force, except as otherwise provided in such schedule, on the thirtieth day following the day on 1 specified in such schedule of have entered into for par ce that party shall have the right to suspend or withdraw them in whole or in part until the thirtieth day following the day upon which the notification pursuation to this section shall have been given by the other party.

IV

This Agreement shall terminate at such time as a protocol to t General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade embodying the results of  1960-61 Tariff Conference and incorporating the schedules anne3i hereto has entered into force for both the parties to this Agreement

DONE at Geneva this 15th day of June, 1962.
 
 

For the Government of the United States of America

Sdl- S
JOHN W. EVANs 

For the Government of India
M.G. MAT

                 SCHEDULE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

This Schedule is authentic only in the English language
Customs Territory of the United States
Most-Favored-Nation Tariff

(See general notes at the end of this Schedule)
 
 
 
Paragraph  Description of Products Rates of Duty/ 
   
58
59 
Oil, distilled or essential, not mixed or compounded with or containing alcohol: sandalwood 
Opium containing 8.5% or more anhydrous morphine 
  9%, ad val
 
 
 

$ 8.10 per lb of anhydrous morphine content   but not less  than 81 nor more than   $ 1.35 per lb of opium

8% ad val
$ 7.20 per lb of  anyhydous morphine  content  but   not less  than   $ 1.20 per  lb of opium

The word "Paragraph" refers to the respective paragraphs appearing in the Taril Act of 1930.
 
Paragraph* Description of Products Rates Of Duty
A B
           208(f)

            209

            364

            761
            764

             781

            1015

            1018

         1019 
         1021 
         1022
         1507 
          1528

GENERAL NOTES

1. The provisions of this Schedule are subject to the pertinent

appearing at the end of Schedule XX (Geneva-1947) annei the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as authent~ at Geneva on October 30, 1947.

2. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, to the provisil . this Agreement, and to the provisions of section 350(a) ( and. (C) of the Tariff Act of 193;0, the rates specified in th columns in this Schedule will become effective as follows


 
 

 


Rates in Column A will become initially effective on the clay provided therefor in the proclamation by the President of the
United States to carry out the provisions of this Agreement.
Rates in Column B will become initially effective in each case Indian Tariff Item No. upon the expiration of a full period of one year after the ex 30(8)related rate in Column A became initially effective. A rate ex 39(l) shall be considered as becoming initially effective as indicated ex 40 above even though such rate reflects no change in rate of duty, and notwithstanding duty on the product or products ex 72 concerned is temporarily suspended. ex 72(b) For the purposes of subparagraph (a) above, the phrase ex 72(3) "full period of one-year" means a period or periods ex 72(3)aggregating one year exclusive of the time, after a rate becomes initially effective, when, 'by reason of legislation of the United States or action thereunder, a higher rate of dutyis being applied.

SCHEDULE OF INDIA ex: 72(6) 

Description

Rate of Duty

Offered

Dried skim milk, that is to say, dried milk powder containing not more than 4 per cent of fat and no added ingredients Milo and sorghums Wood rosin Stockholm tar, refined Diatomaceous earth Phosphorous pentoxide Sulphur dioxide Phosphorous yellow Freon type refrigerants Sodium borate, powder, excluding anhydrous Ethyl acetate Diastase of malt and diastase taka D.D.T. Glucose, pure, powder Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, etc., specified in the annexure

Free
 

Rebinding Free
 

20% ad val. 27% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val. 20% ad val.

is products provided for under the above items, ex 28,_ shall be exempt from ordinary t-favoured-nation Customs duties which exceed the preferential rate applicable to such lucts of the United Kingdom or British Colonial origin, by more than 10% ad val.
 

SCHEDULE OF INDIA

Description

ex 72(6)

72(17)

ex 72(26) ex 87
 

Slate pencils Rubber hoses Artificial or reconstituted wood in sheets, in blocks, in boards, except fibre board or the like and other wood simply shaped or worked, n.e..s. other, except wood flour
 

Machinery specially designed for bleaching and weavingcott textiles

Earth shifting machinery and parts
 

Component parts including driving chains of paper-aking machinery, rice and flour milling machinery, saw mills and wood working machinery, namely, such parts only as are essential for the working of the machines or apparatus and have been given for that purpose some special shape or quality which would no
 

be essential for their use for any other purpose; provided that articles which do not satisfy this condition shall also be deemed to be component parts ofthe machine to which they belong ifthey are essential to its operation and are imported with it in such quantities as may appear to the Collector of Customs to be reasonable.
 

Cinema projection apparatus which requires for its operation less than one-quarter of one br~ake-horse power.
 

Parts of cinema projection apparatus which requires for its operation less than one-quarter of one brake-horse-power

Metal working machinery other than machine tools

Typewriters, standard size, complete; Electric
Polyethylene moulding powder and granules
I

Rate of Duty

Offered' 30% ad val. 40% ad val. 40% ad val.

10% ad val.
Rebinding
15% ad v I

10% advals
Rebjndinding

35% ad val.

35% 1.

10% ad val. Rebinding 15% ad val. 45% ad val.
 
 

ANNEXURE

(REFERRED TO IN ITEM EX 28-INSECTICIDES, FUNGICIDES, DISINFECTANTS, ETC.)

1. 2-4 Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid, and its esters and salts.

2. Disodium ethylene bis-dithiocarbamate.

3. Ethylene dichloride-Carbon tetrachloride mixture (3: 1)

4. Methyl chlorophenoxy acetic acid i.e. 2-methyl 4-chlorophenoxy acetic acid, its esters and salts.

5. Nicotine and its sulphate including solutions thereof not containing any other pesticidal
compounds such as Derris root and Hellebore.

6. 1 Organo-Phosphatic pesticides of the following type : 0,)-Diethyl-0-p-nitrophenyl thiophosphate (Commonly known as "Parathion'l : hexaethyletraphosphate and tetraethylpyrophosphate but excluding "Malathion".

7. Sulphur dust passing through 300 mesh.

8. Wettable sulphur.

9. Zinc ethylene-bia-dithiocarbamates.

10. 1, 2,3,4, 10, 10-hexachlor-6,7, epoxy-1, 4,4a, 5, 6, 7,8, 8a 8a-octahydro-1, 4, 5, 8-endoe-endo

dimethahonapthalene.

11. 1, 2,.3, 4, 10, 10-hexachlor-1, 4, 4a, 5, 8, 8a-hexahydro-1, 4, 5, 8-endo-exo dimethanonaph

thalene.

12. 1, 2,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8a-octachlor-2, 3, 3a, 4, 7, 7, 7a-hexahydro-4, 7-methanodene.