Newsletter - State aid and investment: Tariff suspensions

Duty-free import of goods from third countries from  1 January 2014 - tariff suspensions

Date of declaration and expiration of the call
1 January 2013 – 15 February 2013

Form of aid
Reduction of import duties from 1 January 2014 for a defined time period (e.g. 2 years or more)

Eligibility of applicant
Manufacturers based in the EU

Eligibility of the project site
The entire territory of the Slovak Republic

Eligible activities under the project
The subject of the request for summary suspension may be goods satisfying the following conditions:

• the subject of the application must be raw or semi-finished (not a finished product)
• such goods in the EU may not be available for the applicant
• goods must be intended as an input to production
• This product may be applied to reduce the possibility of other duties, or other specific measures (e.g. preferential tariff reduction, anti-dumping measures, inward processing, etc.)

The maximum aid intensity (expressed as% of eligible project costs)
Unlimited, i.e. applicant may submit any number of applications for suspension

The maximum and minimum amount
Annual savings on duty for the goods must be at least EUR 15,000 (the connection is allowed for several manufacturers / importers, if the savings for each individual were below the prescribed ceiling)

Indicative amount of funds to the challenge
Unlimited