Customs and Excise (AANZFTA) Amendment Regulations 2025

• Record Number: LMS1030174
• Citation: SL 2025/42
• Reference: SL 2025/42
• Year: 2025
• Type of Document: Secondary Legislation

Contenidos

• Customs and Excise (AANZFTA) Amendment Regulations 2025
• Preamble
• Contents
• Regulations
• 1 Title
• 2 Commencement
• 3 Principal regulations
• 4 Regulation 51ZM amended (Interpretation)
• 5 New regulation 51ZPA inserted (Notice issued by Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
• 51ZPA Notice issued by Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• 6 New regulation 51ZQA inserted (Extended accumulation)
• 51ZQA Extended accumulation
• 7 Regulation 51ZX amended (Direct consignment)
• Explanatory note

Customs and Excise (AANZFTA) Amendment Regulations 2025

Order in Council

At Wellington this 10th day of March 2025

Present:Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Cindy Kiro, Governor-General

Preamble

These regulations are made under section 403 of the Customs and Excise Act 2018 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.

Contents

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Customs and Excise (AANZFTA) Amendment Regulations 2025.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 21 April 2025.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Customs and Excise Regulations 1996.

4 Regulation 51ZM amended (Interpretation)

In regulation 51ZM, definition of AANZFTA, after 27 February 2009, insert and includes the first protocol and, where applicable, the second protocol.

In regulation 51ZM, insert in their appropriate alphabetical order:

In regulation 51ZM, replace the definition of product specific rule with:

product specific rule means a rule or rules that specify that goods used to produce goods must have undergone a change in tariff classification or a specific manufacturing or processing operation, or that require that goods satisfy a regional value content criterion, and—

in relation to a party to the AANZFTA, in respect of which the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade has not published a notice under regulation 51ZPA or at any time before the second protocol applies to any party, a rule or rules specified in the document entitled Product Specific Rules of Origin for AANZFTA goods (2022)—

1. as certified by the chief executive as a true copy of the product specific rules set out in

Product Specific Rules of Origin for AANZFTA goods (2022); and

2. published by the chief executive on the Customs’ internet site:

in relation to a party to the AANZFTA, in respect of which the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade has published a notice under regulation 51ZPA, and 180 days after the commencement of the second protocol and subsequently, a rule or rules specified in the document entitled Chapter 3 Annex 3B, Product Specific Rules—

1. as certified by the chief executive as a true copy of

Chapter 3 Annex 3B, Product Specific Rules; and

2. published by the chief executive on the Customs’ internet site.

5 New regulation 51ZPA inserted (Notice issued by Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade)

After regulation 51ZP, insert:

51ZPA Notice issued by Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade must, as soon as practicable after New Zealand accepts a party’s ratification of the second protocol, publish a notice on an internet site maintained by or on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and accessible to the public specifying—

1. the name of the party; and

2. whether that party has...