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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
28431000	Colloidal precious metals (for example, gold, platinum, silver).	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%
28429000	Salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids, excluding azides & double or complex silicates.	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%
28421000	Double or complex silicates, including aluminosilicates whether or not chemically defined.	C - Access at year 5	5.00%	4.00%	3.00%	2.00%	1.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
28419090	Other aluminate	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%
28419010	Sodium aluminate	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%
28418000	Tungstates (wolframates).	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%
28417090	Other molybdates	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%
28417010	Molybdates of sodium	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%
28416900	Manganites, manganates & permanganates (excluding potassium permanganate).	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%
28416100	Potassium permanganate.	C - Access at year 5	5.00%	4.00%	3.00%	2.00%	1.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
28415090	Other chromates	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%
28415010	Sodium chromates	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%
28413000	Sodium dichromate.	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%
28403000	Peroxoborates (perborates).	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%
28402000	Borates, other than disodium tetraborate (refined borax).	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%
28401900	Disodium tetraborate (refined borax), other than anhydrous.	C - Access at year 5	5.00%	4.00%	3.00%	2.00%	1.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
28401100	Disodium tetraborate (refined borax), anhydrous.	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%
28399000	Silicates; commercial alkali metal silicates other than of sodium & of potassium.	C - Access at year 5	5.00%	4.00%	3.00%	2.00%	1.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
28391900	Sodium silicates; commercial sodium silicates other than sodium metasilicates.	C - Access at year 5	5.00%	4.00%	3.00%	2.00%	1.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
28391100	Sodium metasilicates.	C - Access at year 5	5.00%	4.00%	3.00%	2.00%	1.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

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