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title: "Tariff Quotas | Preferential or Autonomous"
description: "Tariff concessions provided for a predetermined volume of goods are called preferential tariff quotas. Within these quotas, a set volume of goods originating in a specified country can benefit from a more favourable import duty rate than the normal third-country duty."
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# Tariff Quotas | Preferential or Autonomous

Tariff concessions provided for a predetermined volume of goods are called preferential tariff quotas. Within these quotas, a set volume of goods originating in a specified country can benefit from a more favourable import duty rate than the normal third-country duty.

Tariff concessions that are provided for a predetermined volume of goods are called "preferential tariff quotas". Within these tariff quotas, a predetermined volume of goods originating in a specified country/territory can benefit at import from a more favourable rate of duty than the normal third countries/territories duty. Entitlement to benefit from tariff quotas is subject to presentation of the necessary evidence of origin.

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