equivalent goods

If you intend to use equivalent goods, you must specify this on your application.

In such cases, you may claim duty relief on the quantity of equivalent goods used to produce the compensating products.

Common storage is the storage of the same type of goods, with a different customs status, known as equivalent goods.

You must state factors common to the equivalent goods and the customs warehousing goods and suggest how this can be checked (for example technical specifications or samples).

The equivalent goods used must be of the same 8-digit tariff commodity code as the exported goods, and must have the same technical characteristics and commercial quality and origin.

Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher.

A ghetto tax is not literally a tax; it is a situation in which people pay higher costs for equivalent goods or services simply because they are poor, or live in a poor area.

The procedure also enables faulty goods to be returned to a third country for repair, or for replacement with equivalent goods under the Standard Exchange System (SES), see paragraph 3.5.2.

Using this information and the Retail Price Schedule, shoppers will price 120 goods and services, everything from auto repair to zucchini, to compare their prices with equivalent goods and services in the US.

Equivalent goods are goods that share the same 8-digit commodity code, the same commercial quality and the same technical characteristics but have a different customs status, and where it is not possible for you to identify at all times their status - refer to paragraph 8.3.

An example, where use of equivalent goods would be acceptable, is where chemicals exported for process are placed in common bulk storage tanks at the processor's premises before manufacture of the product, and it is not therefore possible to guarantee that the actual goods exported have been used.