In accordance with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Customs Union, outlined in Law No. 41/2002 and implemented as the GCC Unified Customs Law on January 1, 2003, Qatar imposes a 5 percent ad valorem tariff on the cost, insurance and freight (C.I.F.) invoice value of most imported products, including food products.  The GCC has approved exemptions for approximately 600 goods (including basic food products, such as live animals, fresh fruit and vegetables, seafood, wheat, flour, rice, feed grains, spices, seeds for planting and powdered milk), diplomatic and consular imports, military and security products, civilian aviation, personal effects and used household items, passenger accompanied luggage and gifts, goods destined for charitable use, ships and other vessels for the transport of passengers and floating platforms, and products to be used for industrial projects.  Qatar also has a 20 percent tariff on iron bars and rods, non-alloy hot-rolled steel and 12-millimeter steel bars as well as cement. Customs duties of 30 percent are levied on imports of urea and 15 percent on imports of records and musical instruments.  The sale of pork and pork products is strictly regulated, only available at one store for non-Muslim residents of Qatar. Pork, pork products, tobacco products, and alcoholic beverages are subject to a 100 percent import duty.  Projects funded by the Qatar Industrial Development Bank (QIDB) can be granted a customs duty waiver for the import of machinery, raw materials, and other industrial inputs.

To look up duties and tariffs use, use the Customs Info Database Tariff Lookup Tool, available on trade.gov (free registration required).