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PAPUA NEW GUINEA
EXCISE TARIFF (AMENDMENT) ACT 2015
No. 31 of 2015.
Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2015.
Certified on: 2 0 JAN 2016
Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2015.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.
Duties of excise (Amendment of Schedule 1).
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No. of 2015.
AN ACT
entitled
Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2015,
Being an Act to amend the Excise Tariff Act (Chapter 107),
MADE by the National Parliament and deemed to have come into operation on 1 December 2014.
DUTIES OF EXCISE (AMENDMENT OF SCHEDULE 1).
Schedule 1 of the Principal Act is amended by –
(a) repealing tariff items 2402.20.40 and 2402.20.50 and their description of goods, rates of excise duty and remarks; and
(b) repealing and replacing the tariff item, description of goods and rates of excise duty and remarks in the following:
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| Tariff Item | Description | Duty Rate from 1 December 2014 | Remarks |
| 2402.10.00 | Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos containing tobacco. | K259.13 Per Kg | The duty rate for tobacco products is adjusted at 6 monthly intervals on 31st of May and 30th of November each year. The adjustment is calculated by multiplying the duty rate then applicable, by a fixed percentage amount of
5%. |
| 2402.20.10 | Cigarettes or tobacco or tobacco substitutes with filter containing tobacco other than dark fired tobacco. | K259.13 Per thousand sticks | |
| 2402.20.20 | Cigarettes or tobacco or tobacco substitutes without filter containing dark fired tobacco (spear or equivalent). | K129.58 Per thousand sticks | |
| 2402.20.30 | Cigarettes or tobacco or tobacco substitutes with filter, containing dark fired tobacco (Spear or equivalent). | K161.67 Per thousand sticks | The adjustment as calculated is added to the duty rate then applicable, to give the new duty rate. The new duty rate after each adjustment
will replace the previous duty rate and will apply from the first day of the next month ie., from 1st June and 1st December. |
| 2403.11.10 | Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion. | K86.40 Per Kg | |
| 2403.11.30 | Chewing tobacco. | K86.40 Per Kg | |
| 2403.11.40 | Snuff. | K86.40 Per Kg | |
| 2403.11.50 | Twist or trade tobacco. | K86.40 Per Kg | |
| 2403.11.60 | Stick tobacco. | K86.40 Per Kg | |
| 2403.11.70 | Coarse shredded tobacco for roll your own cigarettes. | K41.78 Per Kg | |
| 2403.91.00 | "Homogenised" or "reconstituted" tobacco. | K120.00 Per Kg | |
| 2403.99.00 | Other | K86.40 Per Kg |
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I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2015 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Acting Clerk the National Parliament.
20 JAN 2016
I hereby certify that the Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2015 was made by the National Parliament on 3 November 2015.
Speaker of the National Parliament.
20 JAN 206
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