The agreement was signed between Pakistan and China during President Pervez Musharraf's last visit to China.
The CBR has notified reduction in the customs duty on the import of 75 types of Chinese seafood, electric train, driving bogies, television camera tubes, airbrakes, sewing machines, grinding or polishing machines, tiles/pipes, silkworm, paper and paperboard, glycerol and other items.
At the same time, China will also notify tariff concession on the import of 777 items from Pakistan.
As per the SRO, reduction in duty on the goods imported from China will be in conformity with the Rules of Origin issued by the Commerce Ministry.
The CBR has used powers under Section 19 of the Customs Act, 1969 to exempt Chinese goods, falling under H.S. Code of the First Schedule of the Customs Act, 1969, from customs duty as in excess of duty specified in the notification.
The CBR has reduced customs duty on the import of following Chinese items from January 1, 2004 as per SRO (I)/2003 issued here on Thursday: Ornamental fish; Trout (Salmon, trutta, Oncorhynehus mykiss, Oncorhynchus, clarkl, Oncorhynechus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilea, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster); Ecls (Anguilla spp); Carp; Pacific salmon (onorhuyunchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus Keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus Masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus) Altantic salmon (salmon salar) and Danube salmon (hucho hucho); Halibut (Rcinharditus hippoglossoides, Hipoglossus hippoglossus, Hippoglossus stenolepies); Plaice (Pleuronectes platcssa); Sole (Solea spp); Albacore or long finned tunnas (Thunnus alalunga); Yellowfin tunnas (Thunnus albacarcs); Skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito; Herrings (Cluppeas harengus, Clupea pallasil), excluding livers and roes; Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus), excluding livers and roes; Sardines (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinops spp), sardinella (Sardinela spp) brisling or sprats (Sprattus); Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus); Coalfish(Pollachius virens); Mackerel (Scomber scombrus, Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus); Dogfish and other sharks; Eels (Anguilla spp); Livers and roes; Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus, tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus), excluding livers and roes; Trout (Salmon trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynclus clarki; Atlantic salmon (salmon salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho Hucho); Halibut (Rcinhardirushippologoss-oides, Hippoglossus Hippoglossus, Hippoglossus stenolepis); Plaice (Plcuroncctes platessa); Sole (Solea spp); Albacore or long finned tunnas (Thunnus alalunga); yellowfin tunnas (Thunnus albacares); Skipjack or strip-bellied bonito; Herrings (Clupea harengus, Chupea pallasii) Excluding livers and roes; Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) excluding livers and roes; Sardines (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinops spp) sardinella Sardinela spp.) brisling or sprats (Sprattus sprattus); Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus); Coalfish (pollachius virens); Mackerel (Scomber scombrus, Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus); Dogfish and other sharks; Ecls (anguilla sp.); Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, Dicentrarchus punctatus); Hake (Merluccius spp. Urophycis spp.); livers and roes; fresh or chilled; frozen filets; flours, meals and pellets for fish, fit for human consumption; livers and roes, dried, smoked, salted or in brine; fish fillets, dried salted or in brine but not smoked; Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus, nerka, Oncorhynchus, keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha. Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus massous and Oncorhynchus rhodurus). Atlantic salmon (Salmon salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho huncho); Herrings (clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii); Cod (Dadus morhua, Gadus, ogac, Gadus macrocephalus); herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii); Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus, ogac, Gadus macrocephatus); Anchovies (Engraulis spp.); Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp. Panulirus spp. Jasus spp); Lobsters (Homarus spp); Shrimps and prawns; Crabs,; Other, including flours, meals and pellets of crustaceans, fir for human consumption; rock lobster and other sea crawcfish (Palinurus spp. Panulirus spp. Jasus spp); Lobsters (Homarus sp.); Shrimps and prawns; Crabs; Other including flours, meals and pellets for crustaceans, fit for human consumption; Desiccated; Cloves (whole, fruit, cloves and stems); Nutmeg; Mace; Glyeerol, crude, glycerol waters and glyccrol lyes; Cane molasses; Cocoa, beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted; In powder or in flakes; Containing by weight 97% or less of calcium fluoride; Containing by weight more than 97% of calcium fluoride; Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not elsewhere specified or included); Glycerol; other (Of citronella) of eucalyputs other; Activated carbon Oicic acid; Tall oil fatty acids; Other (Palm fatty acid distillate Palm acid oil other; Industrial fatty alcohol; Natural rubber latex, whether or not pre-vulcanized; Smoked sheets; Technically specified natural rubber (TSNR); Of a kind used on motor cars (including station wagons and racing cars); Of a kind used (in light truck) buses or lorries other; Of a kind used on aircraft; Of a kind used on Motorcycles; Of a kind used on bicycles; Of a kind used on agricultural or forestry vehicles and machines Of a kind used on construction or industrial handing vehicles and machines and having a rim size not exceeding 61 cm. Of a kind used on construction or industrial handling vehicles and machines and having a rim size exceeding 61 cm; O a kind on motor cars (including station wagons and racing cars), buses or lorries; Of a kind used on bicycles; Floor coverings and mats; Paper and paperboard of a kind used as abase for photo-sensitive, heat-sensitive or electro-sensitive paper or paperboard; Carbonising base paper; Wallpaper base; Weighing less than 40 g/m; Weighing more than 150 g/m; Bleached uniformly throughout the mass and of which more than 95% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres obtained by a chemical process; Semi-chemical fluting paper (corrugating medium); Sulphite wrapping paper; Filter paper and paperboard; felt paper and paperboard; other paper and paperboard, weighing 159 g/m or less ; other paper and paperboard, weighing more than 1540 g/m but less than 225 g/m; other paper and paperboard weighing 225 g/m or more; Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling; Carded wool; Combed wool in fragments; Fine animal hair, carded or combed; Coarse animal hair, carded or combed; Faced or reinforced with paper or paperboard only; Tiles, cubes and similar articles, whether or not rectangular, the largest surface area of which is capable of being enclosed in a square the side of which is less than 7 cm; containing by weight more than 55% of silicon; Line pipe of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines; Drill pipe; Cold-drawn or cold-rolled (cold-reduced); Sawing machines; Grinding or polishing machines; Having a power handling capacity not exceeding 1 KVA; Having a power handling capacity exceeding 1 KVA but not exceeding 500KVA; Parts; Induction or dielectric furnaces and ovens;
Soldering irons and guns; Fully or partly automatic; Television camera tubes, image converters and intensifiers, other photo-cathode tubes; data/graphic display tube, black and white or other monochromic; other cathode-ray tubes; manetrons; klystrons; receiver or amplifier valves and tubes; driving bogies and bissel-bogies; other bogies and bissel-bogies; others, including parts; air brakes and parts thereof; hooks and other coupling devices, buffers, and parts thereof; locomotives; electric trains, including tracks, signals and other accessories thereof; reduced-size. ("scale") model assembly kits, whether or not working models, excluding those of subheading No 9503.1000; other construction sets and constructional toys; stuffed; toy musical instruments and apparatus; puzzles; other toys, put up in sets or outfits; other toys and models, incorporating a motor.