Completely free import of industrial goods from EU is planned with Transitional Agreement about market and trade questions of Serbia and EU since 1 January 2014.
The most industrial products import is predicted with the agreement.
– Certain level of customs duties protection, specific and season customs duties will be kept in about 20% of agricultural products since that date until Serbian EU accession- explained the statement from European Integration Office.
Tomato, sweet pepper, fresh grapes, apples, cherries, plums, strawberries, all kinds of meat, offal products of beef, pig, sheep, goat and horse meat will be among products which will be protected by customs duties after 1 January 2014.
Dry milk, non-flavored yogurt, butter, cheese, natural honey, potato, salad, cucumbers, sweet corn, dry plums, wheat, corn, flour, soybean oil, sausages and other prepared products or canned meat, paste, prepared or canned vegetables, jams, marmalade’s, fruit juices and wine vinegar will be also protected.
– Protection of domestic Serbian production by keeping season customs duties for certain number of products contained for the first time in an agreement about stabilization and accession that EU signed with other countries from West Balkan-was alleged in the statement.
Customs duties won’t be decreased for products like sunflower oil, sugar and glucose syrup, other fructose and fructose syrup, “other sugar including invert sugar”, cigarettes, tobacco and other processed tobaccos, decreased during six years’ transition period or after that.
Serbia and EU will get in the fifth year of Transition Market Agreement application on 1 January 2013. The agreement has been being applied since 1 January 2009. Phase liberalization of EU goods import in six years period and export of EU goods immediate liberalization is predicted with the agreement, and Serbia has exported goods to EU duty-free since 2001.
– Market is being also liberalized according to other agreements about free trade Serbia signed with: CEFTA countries, Federation of Russia, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and EFTA countries, stated European Integration Office.
Full duty amount is being paid for import from countries Serbia hasn’t signed agreement about free market. Documents about applied height of duties according to all free market agreements, and about all products duties, are being kept for and after 1 January 2013 and later it will possible to be found in Annex III (v) and III (g) of Transition Market Agreement and in Regulation on the Harmonization of the Custom Tariff for 2013.
