A Comparative Guide to the Chile-United States Free Trade Agreement and the
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Annex 3.4 |
Comparative Study |
Source: Chile-US tariff schedules on USTR web site; DataIntal |
1 The Schedule of the United States has a multiple break-out on a single tariff line that is signified by a letter following the tariff line. In this case, the product is treated as a single tariff line when counting the tariff lines, and the import value is treated as corresponding to a split product / s.t. side note. |
2 Import data correspond to the year 2001 and are in thousands of US Dollars. |
3 It should be noted that in the case of Chile there are a number of products with zero base tariffs that are assigned staging category A (Immediate), rather than staging category F (Continued duty-free). |
† In the cases of staging categories with grace periods, the number of years in the description of the basket includes the grace period as well as the period of liberalization. |
‡ This category includes products where there are notes (such as exceptions or tariff rate quotas) in the staging category or in a separate column. In some cases staging categories in the table will be empty because all the products subject to that staging category are subject to such a note. |
* These are instances where the tariff elimination staging category in the tariff schedule is null. |
** These are instances where a tariff line in the import data does not correspond with a tariff line in the tariff schedule. |
*** Verbatim from US Schedule |