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RUAE-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement

Advantages of the India−UAE CEPA

Ease of doing business
Access to free trade zones
Widening of export destination
Preferential market access with cuts in tariffs
Growth and job creation

UNDERSTANDING THE TABLE OUTPUT

The year progression (starting from 2022) illustrates that % value of custom duties across commodities The offer details are as follows:

Offer Description

A Day 1 access

C Access at year 5

E Access at year 10

G Prohibited product Cannot be imported to UAE

F Excluded

H Special goods

TR Tariff Reduction

Details

CEPA starts with duty

Duty upto 5 years

Duty upto 10 years

o not fall under CEPA

Requires special approval before imp

Duty exemptions

Hscode	Short Description	Offer	Uae tariff%	'22	'23	'24	'25	'26	'27	'28	'29	'30	'31
25280000	Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine;	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25262020	Talc, crushed or powdered.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25262010	Natural steatite, crushed or powdered.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25261020	Talc, not crushed, not powdered, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25261010	Natural steatite, not crushed, not powdered, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25253000	Mica waste.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25252000	Mica powder.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25251000	Crude mica & mica rifted into sheets or splittings.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25249090	Other	G - Prohibited products	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
25249040	Trimolite	G - Prohibited products	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
25249030	Amosite	G - Prohibited products	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
25249020	Anthophyllite	G - Prohibited products	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
25249010	Actinolite	G - Prohibited products	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
25241000	Crocidolite excluding fibre carded, dyed, etc & finished articles of asbestos in heading 68.12.	G - Prohibited products	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
25239000	Slag cement, supersulphate cement & similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers, N.E.S.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25233000	Aluminous cement.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25232990	Portland cement, other than white cement, whether or not artificially coloured (excluding normal cement & salt resistant cement), N.E.S.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25232920	Portland cement, salt resistant.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25232910	Normal portland cement.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
25232100	Portland white cement, whether or not artificially coloured.	A - Day 1 access	5.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

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