Medicine Industry's WTO Commitments

According to Annex II, Staging Matrix for Section II (Other Products' Concessions), the mentioned pharmaceutical products are as follows (tariff lines, product's name, binding rate at accession, final binding rate, implementation year, referring to January 1 of the year indicated when the final binding rate will be achieved):
29361000 - Provitamins, unmixed - Vitamins and their derivatives unmixed 5.7 4 2002
29362100 - Vitamins A and their derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29362200 - Vitamin B1 and its derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29362300 - Vitamin B2 and its derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29362400 - D- or DL-Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B3 or Vitamin B5) and its derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29362500 - Vitamin B6 and its derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29362600 - Vitamin B12 and its derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29362700 - Vitamin C and its derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29362800 - Vitamin E and its derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29362900 - Other Vitamins and their derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29369000 - Other, including natural concentrates 5.7 4 2002
29371010 - Pituitary (anterior) and similar hormones 5.7 4 2002
29371090 - Other 5.7 4 2002
29372100 - Cortisone, hydrocortisone derivatives of adrenal cortical hormones 5.7 4 2002
29372210 - Dexamethasone 8 4 2003
29372290 - Other 5.7 4 2002
29372910 - Other adremal cortical hormones 5.7 4 2002
29372990 - Other hormones and their derivatives; other steroids used primarily hormones as 5.7 4 2002
29379100 - Insulin and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29379200 - Oestrogens and progestogens 5.7 4 2002
29379900 - Other 8 4 2003
29391000 - Alkaloids of opium and their derivatives; Alkaloids of cinchona and their derivatives; salts thereof 5.7 4 2002
29392100 - Quinine and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29392900 - Other 5.7 4 2002
29393000 - Caffeine and its salts Ephedrine and their salts 5.7 4 2002
29394100 - Ephedrine and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29394200 - Pseudoephedrine (INN) and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29394900 - Other 5.7 4 2002
29395000 - Theophylline and aminophylline (theophylline-ethylenediamine) rye ergot and their derivatives 5.7 4 2002
29396100 - Ergometrine (INN) and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29396200 - Ergotamine (INN) and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29396300 - Lysergic acid and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29396900 - Other 5.7 4 2002
29397000 - Nicotine and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29399010 - Strychnine and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29399020 - Cocaine and its salts 5.7 4 2002
29399090 - Other sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose 5.7 4 2002
29411011 - Ampicillin 10 6 2003
29411012 - Ampicillin trihydrate 10 6 2003
29411019 - Other 10 6 2003
29411091 - Amoxycillin 5.7 4 2002
29411092 - Amoxycillin trihydrate 5.7 4 2002
29411093 - 6-Aminopenicillanic acid 5.7 4 2002
29411094 - Penicillin V 5.7 4 2002
29411096 - Cloxacillin 5.7 4 2002
29411099 - Other 5.7 4 2002
29415000 - Erythromycin and its derivatives; salts 8 4 2003
29419010 - Gentamycin and its derivatives; salts 5.7 4 2002
29419020 - Kanamycin and its derivatives; salts 5.7 4 2002
29419030 - Rifampicin (RFP); salts thereof 5.7 4 2002
29419051 - 7-aminocephalosporianic acid, 7-aminodeacetoxycefanoic acid 10 6 2003
29419052 - Cefalexin and its salts 10 6 2003
29419053 - Cefazolin and its salts 10 6 2003
29419054 - Cefradine and its salts 10 6 2003
29419055 - Ceftriaxone and its salts 10 6 2003
29419056 - Cefoperazone and its salts 10 6 2003
29419057 - Cefotaxime and its salts 10 6 2003
29419058 - Cefaclor and its salts 10 6 2003
29419059 - Other 10 6 2003
29419060 - Midecamycin and its derivatives; salts thereof 10 6 2003
29419070 - Acetyl-spiramycin and its derivatives; salts thereof 5.7 4 2002
29419090 - Other 10 6 2003
30011000 - Glands and other organs, dries, powdered or not 5 3 2002
30012000 - Glandular extracts or other organs, or of their secretions 5 3 2002
30019010 - Heparin and its salts 5 3 2002
30019090 - Other 5 3 2002
30021000 - Antiserum and other blood fractions 5 3 2002
30031011 - Ampicillin 10 6 2003
30031012 - Amoxycillin 10 6 2003
30031013 - Penicillin V 10 6 2003
30031019 - Other 10 6 2003
30031090 - Other 10 6 2003
30032011 - Cefotaxime 10 6 2003
30032012 - Ceftazidime 10 6 2003
30032013 - Cefoxitin 10 6 2003
30032014 - Ceftezole 10 6 2003
30032015 - Cefaclor 10 6 2003
30032016 - Cefuroxime 10 6 2003
30032017 - Ceftriaxone 10 6 2003
30032018 - Cefoperazone 10 6 2003
30032019 - Other 10 6 2003
30032090 - Other 10 6 2003
30033100 - Containing insulin 8.5 5 2003
30033900 - Other 8 6 2002
30039010 - Containing sulfa drugs 11.4 6 2004
30041012 - Amoxycillin 10 6 2003
30041013 - Penicillin V 10 6 2003
30041019 - Other 10 6 2003
30041090 - Other 10 6 2003
30042011 - Cefotaxime 10 6 2003
30042012 - Ceftazidime 10 6 2003
30042018 - Cefoperazone 10 6 2003
30042019 - Other 10 6 2003
30042090 - Other products of heading No 29.37 but not containing antibiotics 10 6 2003
30043100 - Containing insulin 8.5 5 2003
30043200 - Containing adrenal cortical 8.5 5 2003
30043900 - Other 8.5 5 2003
30044010 - Containing quinine or its salts 6.7 5 20020
30044090 - Other 6.7 5 2002
30045000 - Other 8 6 2002
30049010 - Containing sulfa drugs 8 6 2002
30049020 - Containing biphenyl dicarbxybte 5.7 4 2002
30049051 - Medicated liquors or wines 5 3 2002
30049052 - Pien Tzu Huang 5 3 2002
30049053 - Bai Yao 5 3 2002
30049054 - Essential balm 5 3 2002
30049059 - Other 5 3 2002
30049090 - Other 5.7 4 2002
30062000 - Blood-grouping reagents 4.7 3 2002
30063000 - Opacifying preparations for X-ray 5.7 4 2002

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