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Import Tariffs
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Presidential Decree No. 419/2018 increased import tariffs on over 300 goods. The decree modified customs duties on over 5,700 HS tariff lines, impacting more than 300 separate product categories across raw materials, capital goods, consumer goods, agricultural items, and more. Modifications to custom fees included total custom exemptions on all medications related to infectious, chronic, psychiatric, and neurological diseases. A new tariff item was also introduced covering sterilized and polymer-ethylene manufactured surgery bags.

Custom fees on automotive products have been reduced for the 1600 CC engine power vehicles operating both with oil and electric engines from 40 percent down to 30 percent, and for higher engine power vehicles from 135 percent down to 100 percent. Fee exemptions are applied only to electrically operated vehicles, whereas discounts in tariff category for natural gas-operated vehicles have increased from 25 percent to 35 percent.

To protect national industries, slight discounts are made within the new tariff on fees applied on pens; namely, a fee decreased by 50 percent down from 60 percent is made on plastic-manufactured pens and by 40 percent from 60 percent on ink-filled pens and pencils.

A unified tariff of 40 percent has been applied on television screens and monitors. Fees have also been decreased on Egyptian imports of stained-glass windows and glass panels used in manufacturing processes from 50 percent down to 20 percent. New 10 percent-discounted tariff categories have been introduced for tires of “tuk-tuks” (three-wheeled vehicles) and fireproof lockers and drawer units, and a tariff decrease was made for empty cabins used in electrical appliances and communication devices, reaching 5 percent.

A totally exempted tariff category has been introduced for silkworm eggs and for LED bulbs and their components of light emitting diodes, while a fee of 5 percent is made on their plastic and glass components. Fee increases are made on plastic-made shower sprayers to reach 60 percent, up from 40 percent, and Zinc-made shower sprayers to reach 40 percent from 30 percent.