Tariff (Specified PACER Plus Parties—Vanuatu) Amendment Order 2022
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Tariff (Specified PACER Plus Parties—Vanuatu) Amendment Order 2022
Cindy Kiro, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 12th day of September 2022
Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council
This order is made under section 7A(1)(bb) of the Tariff Act 1988 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.
Order
1 Title
This order is the Tariff (Specified PACER Plus Parties—Vanuatu) Amendment Order 2022.
2 Commencement
This order comes into force on 11 October 2022.
3 Principal order
This order amends the Tariff (Specified PACER Plus Parties) Order 2020.
4 Clause 3 amended (Specified PACER Plus parties)
After clause 3(h), insert:
(i)
Vanuatu.
Rachel Hayward,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order, which comes into force on 11 October 2022, amends the Tariff (Specified PACER Plus Parties) Order 2020 (the principal order).
It declares Vanuatu to be a specified party to the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus (PACER Plus) for the purposes of the Tariff Act 1988. PACER Plus is a free trade agreement, done at Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on 14 June 2017.
The effect of this order is to entitle Vanuatu to preferential tariffs set under the Tariff Act 1988 in accordance with PACER Plus. (For a full list of countries entitled to those preferential tariffs under PACER Plus, see clause 3 of the principal order.)
Date of notification in Gazette: 13 September 2022.
This order is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.