Thailand's Department of Foreign Trade has placed a special safeguard measure on Australian mandarin imports, which have reached trigger levels for 2015.
Consistent with the Thailand Australia Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), once the specified trigger level has been reached, the tariff rate applying to the import line increases.
In the case of mandarins, this will see the preferential rate of zero per cent rise to the general (most favoured nation) tariff rate of 40 per cent, until the end of the calendar year. As of 1 January, the preferential TAFTA rate of zero per cent will be reinstated.
Shipments contracted before the trigger point was reached on 10 August, along with those currently in-transit, will attract the TAFTA preferential rate.
