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• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to increase the rate of the passenger movement charge from $47 to $55 from 1 July 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill (No. 2) 2012

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  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: clarify that the Chief Executive Officer of the Customs and Border Protection Service and the minister have the power to take all facts available into account when determining whether a countervailable subsidy has been received, the amount of a countervailing subsidy, and when certain parties fail to provide information within a reasonable period; enable the level of duties of an anti-dumping measure to be recalculated during a continuation inquiry; and remove the need to include profit when calculating the normal value of a good in its country of origin. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill (No. 2) 2012, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975

  to allow the minister to utilise additional forms of interim dumping duty including an ad valorem (percentage) duty, a fixed amount of duty, a combination duty, or a floor price. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Schedule 4) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to revise the list of goods to which concessional rates of import duty have been granted by consolidating concessions of similar coverage and removing redundant or rarely used concessions. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax) Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill (No. 2) 2011

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  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  in relation to the anti-dumping regime to: establish a new appeals process in relation to decisions made by the minister and the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (the CEO); establish the International Trade Remedies Forum; and allow the CEO to seek one or more extensions of the timeframe at any point during an investigation, review of measures, continuation inquiry or duty assessment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Reducing Business Compliance Burden) Bill 2011

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  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Amendment (Reducing Business Compliance Burden) Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: permit small business entities and certain other persons to defer the settlement of customs duties from a weekly to a monthly cycle; and clarify administrative arrangements for periodic settlement permissions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Military End-Use) Bill 2011

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  Date

  02 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to enable the Minister for Defence to prohibit the export of specified non-regulated goods to a particular place or person if the minister suspects that the goods would or may be used for a military end-use that may prejudice Australia’s security, defence or international relations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Deterring People Smuggling Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: clarify that a non-citizen has, at a particular time, no lawful right to come to Australia if at that time the person does not meet requirements for lawfully coming to Australia under domestic law; and apply this clarification retrospectively to 16 December 1999. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 18 bills to implement a carbon pricing mechanism, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to increase the customs duty rate applying to aviation and non-transport gaseous fuels by an amount equivalent to the carbon emission price of the fuel, had the gaseous fuels been subject to carbon pricing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill 2011

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  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: provide that the minister will make a decision within 30 days of receiving a report or recommendation on which to make a decision; provide that the minister may consider any impacts on jobs and investment in the domestic industry producing like goods during an investigation to determine whether material injury to an Australian industry is being caused or is threatened; reflect all countervailable subsidies under the World Trade Organization Agreements on Subsidies and Countervailing and on Agriculture; and enable industry associations, unions and downstream industry to participate in anti-dumping and countervailing investigations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum