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I shall reply briefly to Mr Rübig on two topics. The first of these concerns the nature of the existing obstacles to imports. Broadly speaking, there are two categories of obstacles, customs barriers, whether tariff or quantitative, and more technical barriers. As far as tariff barriers and quantitative barriers and concerned, I believe that, with the ‘Everything But Arms’ initiative and with the enhanced GSP which we are proposing now, the developing countries’ access to our market, particularly via modern, electronic means, is satisfactory.
Then there is the question of customs procedures, and in particular the implementation of inspections related to the rules of origin. Inasmuch as we are giving specific customs advantages, as compared with a most-favoured-nation clause, we cannot risk ignoring the existence of rules of origin and therefore of certificates, which require customs procedures. So, on the one hand we are dealing with tariffs, but on the other hand, because we are dealing with tariffs, we need rules of origin and therefore customs procedures, so customs procedures will continue to exist.
Having said that, I should explain that these customs procedures apply subject to exemptions which are conditional upon the value of consignments, and which to some extent transactions via the Internet will not pick up. In other words, as long as you remain below a certain number of exemptions, Internet exports can go ahead without any customs procedures. Beyond that, I think that for the time being, unless we run into any serious and dangerous problems over rules of origin, we should retain a certain number of formalities."@en1
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