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Customs Tariff Act 1982
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CHAPTER 33
ESSENTIAL OILS AND RESINOIDS; PERFUMERY, COSMETICS AND TOILET PREPARATIONS
(a) compound alcoholic preparations (known as concentrated extracts) for the manufacture of beverages, being preparations falling within 22.09;
(b) soap or other goods falling within 34.01;
(c) spirits of turpentine or other goods falling within 38.07.
2\. In 33.06, “perfumery, cosmetics and toilet preparations” includes—
(a) prepared room deodorisers, whether or not perfumed; and
(b) goods (whether or not mixed), that are suitable for use as perfumery, cosmetics or toilet preparations or as room deodorisers and are put up in packs of a kind sold by retail for such use, other than aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils.
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%; margin-bottom:0pt; border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:11.64%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Column 1</span></p></td><td style="width:21%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Column 2</span></p></td><td rowspan="2" style="width:42.92%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"></span></p></td><td style="width:11.8%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Column 3</span></p></td><td style="width:12.62%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Column 4</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:11.64%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Reference no.</span></p></td><td style="width:21%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Goods</span></p></td><td style="width:11.8%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">General rate</span></p></td><td style="width:12.62%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Special rate</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:11.64%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">33.01</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-left:10.8pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-10.8pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">* ESSENTIAL OILS (TERPENELESS OR NOT), CONCRETES AND</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">ABSOLUTES; RESINOIDS; CONCENTRATES OF ESSENTIAL OILS IN FATS, IN FIXED OILS, OR IN WAXES OR THE LIKE, OBTAINED BY COLD ABSORPTION OR BY MACERATION; TERPENIC BYPRODUCTS OF THE DETERPENATION OF ESSENTIAL OILS:</span></p></td><td style="width:11.8%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"></span></p></td><td style="width:12.62%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:11.64%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">33.01.1</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-left:10.8pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-10.8pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">- Citronella</span></p></td><td style="width:11.8%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Free</span></p></td><td style="width:12.62%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">..</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:11.64%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">33.01.2</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-left:10.8pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-10.8pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">- Goods, being essential oils, concentrates and absolutes of—</span></p><p style="margin-left:14.4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">(a) eucalyptus;</span></p><p style="margin-left:14.4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">(b) garlic;</span></p><p style="margin-left:14.4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">(c) hops; or</span></p><p style="margin-left:14.4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">(d) onion</span></p></td><td style="width:11.8%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">10%</span></p></td><td style="width:12.62%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">DC (except CHIN): Free</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:11.64%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">33.01.9</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">- Other</span></p></td><td style="width:11.8%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">10%</span></p></td><td style="width:12.62%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">DC (except BRAZ): Free</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:11.64%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">33.02</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">..</span></p></td><td style="width:11.8%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"></span></p></td><td style="width:12.62%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:11.64%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">33.03</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">..</span></p></td><td style="width:11.8%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"></span></p></td><td style="width:12.62%; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; line-height:normal; font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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| Column 1 | Column 2 | | Column 3 | Column 4 |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Reference no. | Goods | | General rate | Special rate |
| 33.04 | * MIXTURES OF TWO OR MORE ODORIFEROUS SUBSTANCES (NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL), AND MIXTURES (INCLUDING ALCOHOLIC SOLUTIONS) WITH A BASIS OF ONE OR MORE OF THOSE SUBSTANCES, OF A KIND USED AS RAW MATERIALS IN THE PERFUMERY, FOOD OR DRINK INDUSTRY OR IN ANY OTHER INDUSTRY | | 10% | DC: Free |
| 33.05 | | | | |
| 33.06 | * PERFUMERY, COSMETICS AND TOILET PREPARATIONS; AQUEOUS DISTILLATES AND AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF ESSENTIAL OILS, INCLUDING SUCH OF THOSE GOODS AS ARE SUITABLE FOR MEDICINAL USE: | | | |
| 33.06.1 | - Perfumery, cosmetics and toilet preparations | | 20% | DC: Free |
| 33.06.2 | - Aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils | | 10% | DC: Free |