TARIFFS AND TRADE

RESTRICTED
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON
TARIFFS AND TRADE
L/1014/Add.17
24 March 1960
Limited Distribution
Original: English
STATE-TRADING
ENTERPRISES
Notifications Pursuant to ArticIe XVIl:4(a) in Reply
to the New Questionnaire Contained in Document L/1014
of 3 July l959¹
I.
Enumeration of State-Trading Enterprises
A. CGTheSortpoaritneo
(a)
Wheat, rye,
barley, oats.
thereof (fodder and feeding stuffs).
(b) Products
Monopoly
Alcoholic beverages.
B. The Wine
C. The State Fishing Equipment Corporation
Imports of:
(a) Fishing equipment.
(b) Raw materials and semi-manufactures for the production thereof.
D.
Import Centre
Norwegian Medical
Pharmaceutical products and drugs.
¦The following notifications received from governments have been reproduced
in addenda to document L/1014:
...... ........
Finland ......... Add.11
Add.9
14
"
Austria
Rep. of
15
Australia
..................
Germany, Fed........
"8
12
Ghana ..
"7
2"
India .............. .
Ceylon
5
Denmark ....
.......
Japan.........."16
3
New Zealand ..........
Federation of Malaya .... " 10
"
"6
Federation of
Sweden ............ .
1"
"4
Union of South Africa
Rhodesia and Nyasaland
..
United Kingdom
"13
....
"
.
"
"
..
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Page 2
Norwegian Fuel Import Corporation was dissolved during 1959 and the
import of soal and coke was taken over by private firms.
II.
Reason and Purpose for Introducing and Maintaining the State-
Trading Enterprise
A. The State Grain
Corporation
The Corporation was introduced and is maintained to secure the country's
supplies of grain and flour and to support Norwegian production of grain by
various means, for example through price support, by supporting building
projects for drying grain, by securing the supply of grain for sowing etc.
The Corporation is obliged by law to maintain stocks of grain for one year's
consumption in case of emergency.
B. The Wine Monopoly
The Monopoly was introduced and is maintained for social and fiscal
reasons and to neutralize private interest in the trade of wine and spirits.
It carries out its business in such a manner that the promotion of temperance
is not hindered.
C. The State FishingEquipment Corporation
The Corporation was introduced to secure sufficient supplies of equipment
at reasonable and stable prices for the fisheries. Their vulnerability to
changing prices and their dependence on the weather makes it necessary for the
Government to secure stable prices for the equipment over longer periods. In
Norway the individual fisherman usually owns or is part-owner of the equipment
be uses. The cost of purchasing and maintaining it is thus of paramount
importance to him.
D. Norwegian Medical Import Centre
The Centre was established for social reasons and to secure and exercise
control over the supply of pharmaceutical products and drugs, especially in
emergencies. The Centre came into operation on the 1 November 1957.
III.
Description of
A. The State
Grain
the Functioning of the State-Trading Enterprise
Corporation
The functioning
ofthis Corporation has been described in earlier
notification. It can be summarized as follows: As the exports from Norway
are insignificant the Corporation deals mainly with imports. Products,the
sale of which is the exclusive right of the Corporation cannot be exported without permission of the competent ministry. (Export of herring meal is carried
out by private exporters.)
The quantities to be imported are determined by demand. Long-term
contracts are entered into when commercial considerations so require.
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Page 3
B.
The Wine Monopoly
The Monopoly has exclusive right to the import, the export and the retail
sale of spirits, and the import and retail sale of wine. It may allow private
personas to import for their own consumption. Statistics of private Imports
are not available, but they constitute about 1 per cent of the total.
Only the monopoly produces spirits in Norway. Fruit wine is produced by
private firms. The consumption of Norwegian fruit wine is in the order of
5 per cent of the total wine consumption.
Production, sale and export of beer is in private hands, while the
importation of beer is reserved for the Monopoly.
The quantities and qualities imported by the Monopoly are determined
by public demand.
Apart from duty on imported spirits and wines, there is a tax of 74 per
cent on the retail sale price on all spirits, 55 per cent on strong wines and
40 per cent on wines with low alcoholic contents.
The Monopoly operates as an independent trader according to general rules
drawn up by the Government. The practice of the Monopoly is mainly to purchase
on short-term
contracts.
C. The State Fishing Equipment Corporation
The Corporation only deals with imports.
It sells to manufacturers of
equipment, wholesalers and repair shops. It may be mentioned that the greater
part of the raw materials and semi- manufactures used for the production of
fishing equipment is imported.
Production and exports are handled by private enterprises. The
Corporation may give permission for private traders to import fishing equipment.
The quantities to be imported are determined by demand.
The Corporation operates according to usual business practices and does
not favour Norwegian industry.
D. Norwegian Medical Import Centre
In principle the Centre has the exclusive right to the importation of
pharmaceutical products and drugs and to the sale of these products to
dispensing chemists.
At present preparations destined for technical or scientific use, for
use in plant protection or for other non-medical purposes are excepted. In
addition persons or firms manufacturing pharmaceutical products or drugs may
freely import or export materials used in the manufacture of such products,
except narcotics. The latter are solely imported by the Centre.
manufacturers are free to export.
Private
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The quantities imported by the Centre are determined by demand. The
sale price of raw materials and pharmaceutical products and drugs to the
dispensing chemists is based on the cost price to the Centre with a certain
mark-up. There is no difference in the calculation of the mark-up between
domestic and imported products. Norwegian raw materials form only a small
part of the products manufactured in Norway.
Long-term contracts have in certain cases been negotiated for the supply
of raw materials after offers have been submitted by several suppliers
including suppliers from abroad.
IV. Statistical Information
See Annex I.
The Medical Import Centre came into operation on 1 November 1957. The
figures for 1956 and the greater part of 1957 in the statistics refer
therefore to private imports. Only for 1958 do the figures refer to imports
by the Centre and also during the latter year some imports of pharmaceutical
products were in the hands of private importers.
V.
Reasons why no Foreign Trade has Taken Place (if this is the
in the Products Affected
Does not apply.
VI. Additional Information
None.
ease)
Annex
Annexe
-
1956,1957
1958. Norwegian Production
1957.
ofProducts
-1956
Products faisant 1'objet d'un commerce d'Etat: Importations et exportations en 1956,1957 et 1958. Production nationale en 1956et 1957
Imports
Explanation
--
0
-
nil
magnitude
magnitude less than half
employed
of unit
and
Expots-
and
Covered
and
by
State
Trading
symbols:
of
The first five figures correspond
to the SITC nomenclature
Explication
-
-
3
Special pharmaceutical products
4 Unmounted,
..-
for sale
x -
-
figures relate to the
5 Mounted
whole statistical
6 Yarn
quantity
1,000
no.
litres
for
signes:
Les
1
inférieure la
moitié de liunité amployée
chiffre inconnu
les chiffres indiqués se
quantité
0 -
2 Exludes tax
..-data
not available
des
néant
2 Taxe
3
rapportent l'ensemble
la position statistique
*-quantités
sale, total
en
non
a
CTCI
la
comprise
SpácialitTs
pharmaceutiques
montT, destinT
MontT
à la vente
FilTs at
chanvre,
lin et de
la vente,
4 Non
a
and cord of linen and hemp
cinq Premiers chiffres
correspondent
de
5
6
milIiers
cordes de
destinTs à
de litres
Statistical
Number¹
statistique
Quantity
Quantité
tons
tonnes
Position Commodities
Produits
IMPORTS / IMPORTATIONS
Value
Quantity Value
Valeur Quantité Valour
kr. tons '000 kr.
'000
miIliersde tonnes milliers de
couronnes
ex
0410100
04301 00
0440100
0450100
0450911
0450912
0460100
0470100
0470200
0470911
0470912
0470913
0470914
0470915
0480111
0480112
0480113
0480114
0610100
0610212
0710100
0710200
0710300
0810211
Wheat - Froment
Bariey(incl. barley for brewing which is
not subject to State trading) Orge (y compris l'orge poor Ia brasserie,qui
n' est pas assujetti au commerce d'Etat
Maize..Mais
Rye -Seigle
0450200
0ats-Avoine
Buckwheat - Sarrasin
Durra - Sorgho douro
Wheat flour -Farine de froment
Rye meal -Semouie de seigle
Maize meal -Semoul e de maTs
Ground rice -Riz moulu
Barley meal Samoule d'orge
Oat meal -Semoule d'avoine
Buckwheat flour -. Farine de sarrasin
Durre meal - Semoule de sorgho douro
(2)
(4)
(3)
343,656 190,362
65,138?
58,595
55,480
256.,030 149,213 297,738
43,946
55,891
1,628
31,063
28,168
2,573
110,384
20,212
47,169
12,440
0610211 Lumpsugar and rock candy Sucre en morceawx et sucre candi
22,272
28,194
48,166
60,950
1,211
1,374
16,835
11,897
75,439
16,575
-
0
85
-
-
33,522
18,471
0
0
-0
71..
(7)
(8)
(9)
146,011
11
14
9.424? 46?
19,844
24,197
1,013
-
-
112
--
0
-
--
246
246
208
15,614 16,589
Beet and cane sugar; refined, n.e.s.Sucre de betterave et de canne, raffinT n.d.a. 142,913 121,366
Green coffee -CafTvert
22,134 215,681
Roasted coffee - CafTtorrTfiT
1
7
Coffee extracts - Extraits de cafT
54
1
Rice. bran Son de riz
106
25,894....
9,573
1,161
0
59
204
2.
106
11,549
3
-
16,059
12,814
(11)
3
3
(12)
(13)
50
62
113?
-
6?
..
.
..
..
42,483
1,759
548
112---812
2,990
1,640
2,409
29
159
0
20
8
183
393
9
3
73
456
69
49
-
5,836
-
-
11,724
28,457
28,851
48,672
3,020
13,986
8,238
30, 610
1,194
21,789
350
4,470
5,108
15,587
1,244
384
4,047
1,840
621
-.
3
10
0
-
146,353
10,642
17,566
34,613
5,390
2,256
-
217,874
16,881
22,883
-
116,788 132,172 123,422 102,396
7
46
162,002
-
53
1
1
-
236,915
18,778
39,644
42,376
5
36
3
1
82,000
-
75
128
-
-
2,196
-
-
1,000
140,048
-
16
1,302
109,000
2
15
199,000
188,710
2
49
0
0
214,000
2
311
223,267
315.,563
6
216
26,488
29, 986
106
29
14,399
23,624 229,620
46,000
105
33
0
2
(1957)
55,887
606
0
2
couronnes
(17)
25,000
129
..
tonnes
(16)
641
..
QuantltT
tons
Value
Valeur
'000 kr.
milliers de
(15)
143
-..
Quantity
(14)
171
19
222
..0
0
0
3
3
.
......
'000 kr.
milliers de
couronnes
2,4682,000
-
.
PRODUCTIONNATIONALE
PRODUCOT N NATIONALE
Valeur
6? 297,400
78
1
Value
(1956)
1,067
....
131112-812
114131
114
(10)
11
tons
tonnes
(1958)
47? 109?
-
-
NORWEGIAN PRODUCTION /
Quantity
Quantité
couronnes
(1957)
1
.....
-
59
0
couronnes
-
12
-
Wheat groats -Gruau de froment
Barley groats .. Gruau d'orge
Oaten groats - Gruau d'avoine
Buckwheat greats - Gruau de sarrasin
Beet and cane sugar, unrefined
Sucre betterave et de canne,non raffln6
(6)
33,422? 21,588? 11,016? 18,395?
4,491
I
.0
Quantity Value
(5)
/
EXPORTATIONS
Quantity Value Quantity Val ue
Quantity Value
Quantité Valeur Quantité Valeur Quantité Valeur
tons '000 kr. tons '000 kr.
tons '000 kr.
tonnes miIliers
de tonnes milliers tonnes
de
milliers
Quantité Valeur
tons '000 kr.
tonnes milIiers de
couronnes
couronnes
couronnes
(1958)(1956)
(1957)
(1956)
(1)
EXPORTS
-
..
-
NORWAY
1
(I.)
.
-
I
'-
:
Son n.d.2.
n,
0810212. Bran, n.e.s.0810312 Linseed meal, linseed cakes- Farine at tourteaux de lin
0810313 Rapeseed meal, 'rape cakes Farine ettourteaux de colza
0810314 Cottonseed meal, cotton cakes Farine et tourtiaux de-
" -(3)
(2)222
0
8,943
-
graines.de coton
cakes - Farlne et tartiaux d'arachides 30,570
0810315 Groundnut meal,groundnut
22,230
0810316 Soyabean meal, soya cakes - Farine et tourtiaux de soya
7,027
0810317 Copra mealcopra cakes - Farine et tourteaux de coprah
0810329Oil cake meal, oil cakes, n.e.s. - Autres farines et
19,731
tourteaux, n.d.a.
0810410 Herring and fish meal - Farine- de hareng at de poisson
9,094
0810921 Molasses for feedingsfuffs - Mélasse pour alimentation
des animaux
2,331
0810929 Feedingstuffs n.e.s. - Aliments pour animaux, n.d.a.
1120110 Wine in bottles, sparkling* Vlns mousseux, en bouteilles*77
1120121 Wine In-bottles, other, not exceeding14 degreesAutres vins, on bouteilles, ne titrant pas plus de 14°
1120122 Wine In-bottles, other, exceeding 14 degreesAutres vins, en bouteilles, titrant plus de 14°
1120131 Wine In casks, not exceeding 14 degrees* 1,292
Vins en f?ts, ne titrant pas plus de 14°*
1,607
1120132 Wine in casks, 14-21 degrees* -
1120211
1120212
1120221
1120311
1120312
1120410
1120421
1120422
'
1120423
1120424
1120425
1120426
1120427
Vins-en f?ts, titrant plus de 14° maispas plus de 21°
Alcoholic juicas, cider fruit wine, etc.,not exceeding
Jus de fruits alcoolsé cidre, vins de-fruits, etc.,
12 degreesno titrant
0
-
(4)
--:
(5)
207
0
5,218
475
6,955
22,791
15,185
447
_
(continued - suite)
U)
-
-M
.(8) -
408
I
i
272)
_
8,924
-
_
-
)
17,023
12,141
38,995
8,698
3,041)
-
-
18,234
6,397
21,790)
11,407)
3,325)
19,462
13,691
26,100
14,541)
13,142
4,497
14,794
NORVEG
i
.
I
:... -.
i
i
I
i
II
3,244
1,721
1,117
6,993
8,553
9,745
3,467
1,745
1,277
1,054
867
75
1,033 il
62
889
1,203
103
924
64
535
3,192
666
3,261
838
3,311
2,078
2,240
4,540
1,365
2,742
6,078
1,467
5,722
1,377
5,480
-
Mead Hydromel
Beer,-porter, ale, etc., In-bottles Biére, y compris la porter, l'ale, etc., en bouteilles
:
Beer, porter, ale, etc., In casks
Biére; y compris le porter,-l'ale, etc., an fats
Spirits-In bottles - Spiritueux, an bouteilles
Spirts in casks, not exceeding 51 degrees Spiritueux en f?ts, no titrant pas plus de 51°
Spirits -In casks, 51-60 degrees Spiritueux en f?ts, titrant-plus de 51° mais pas plus de 60°
Spirits In casks, 61-70 degrees- 450
Spiritueux, en f?ts, titrant plus de 61° mais pas plus de 70°
Spirits In casks, 71-80 degrees Spiritueux, en f?ts, titrant plus de 71° mais pas plus de 80°
Spirits in casks, 81-85 degrees Spiritueux, en f?ts, titrant plus de 81° mais pas plus de 85°
Spirits In casks, exceeding 85 degrees
Spiritueux, on f?ts titrant-plus de 85°
Spirits In casks, prepared with sugar Spiritueux, en f?ts, avec addition de sacre
iI
-
1,439
II
-
1
1
28
5
334
37
3,821
3,782
339
70
311
187
954
6,662
14
72820
(9-)
'(1 0)
-'
12)
1
)
2,242
134,699
3,4661,167
1,124)
48
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1,080
10
48
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241
415
28
1
0
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101
48,
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-
4,203
I
(16)
(17)
63,631
34,682
68,498
:40.12
59,859
4079
2,832
44,553
56,425
242,362
190,704
191,286
-
)
II
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)
f
)
5,160
2,356)
I
105,964
119,008
-
1,025
*-
52,30
4,230
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.
to.
189,599
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220$119
179,540
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.
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2)
3,967
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77
-
0
0
-
6
-
189,729 218,924
-
2
1,132
pas plus de 12°
Alcoholic juices, cider fruit wine, etc., 12-21 degrees Jus de fruits alcoolisis, cidre, vins de fruits etc., titrant
plus de-12° mais pas plus de 21°
-
~)
- -(ii)
)
I
13,4632
.a*
14,4052
.
(iii)
NORWAY
(continued - suite)
NORVEGE
II
I
2650200
5410100
5410200
5410300
5410400
5410918
Hemp, codilla of hemp and waste thereof
Chanvre, filasse et dechets de chanvre
Vitamins and vitamin products Vitamines et products à base de vitamines
Bacteriological products (sera and vaccines) Produits bactTriologiques (sTrums et vaccins)
Penicillin, streptomycln, tyrocidine and other anti-biotics
(not incl. articles used In mixtures for feedingstuffs) PT'iIiIlline, streptomycine, tyrocidine et autres antibiotiques
aa l'exclusion des articles utillTes dansiles m6langes pour
l'ailmentation des animaux)
Morphia, cocaine, quinine and other alkaloids, salts and
derivatives thereof Morphine, cociTne, quinine et autres alcaloTdes, leurs sels
et leurs TdriTds
Capsules of gelainee, containing pharmaceutical products Capsules de Tglatine, contonant des products pharmaceutiques
(2) (1)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
940
5,473
1,097
6,183
1,086
5,767
17?
1,962?
1 5?
1,596?
54?
5,113
1
4,039
1
1,303
2
3,101
21?
3,650?
8
570
1
(partly on partie)
__y
5410919 Pharmaceutical products, n.e.s. - Produits pharmaceutiques, n.d.a. 1,25?
6510312 Cotton yarn, unbleached for fishing outfit 752
FiliTs de coton, Tcrus, pour engins de pOche
6510511 Linen and hemp yarn, single unbleached for fishing outfit 533
FilTs de lin et de chanvrd, simple, Tcrus, pour engins de pOche
6510513 Linen and hemp yarn, single, bleached for fishing outfit FilTs de linet de chanvre, simples, blanchis, pour engins de pOche
6510515 Linen and hemp yarn, single, dyed or printed for fishing outfit FilTs de lin et de chanvre, simples, teints ou ImprimTs, pour
engIns de pOche
6510521 Linen and hemp yarn, with two or more threads unbleached for
fishing outfit - FilTs de lin et de chanvre, I deux ou plusieurs bouts, 48
non blanchis, pour engins de pOche
for
6510523 Linen and hemp yarn, with two or more threads bleached
?
deux
do
ou
et
de
plusieurs bouts, chanvre,
fishing outfit FilTs lin
bianchis, pour engins de pOche
6510526 Hemp yarn with two or more threads dyed or printed, for fishing outfit FilTs de chanvre, l deux ou plusieurs bouts, teints ou imprimTs, pour
engins de pOche
6510528 Linen and hemp yarn, with two or more threads, tarred, for
fishing outfit - FilTs de lin et de chanvre, a deux ou plusiers bouts,
goodronnTs, pour engins do pOche
6550631 Lines of linen, hemp or jute for fishing -175
Lignes de lin, de chanvre ou de jute, pour la pOche
6550639 Other cords and lines of linen, hemp or jute 26
Autres cordes at lignes de lin, de chanvre ou de jute
|
6550641 Fishing nets and seines of cottonFilets de pOche et seines, en coton
6550642 Fishing nets and seines of linen, hemp and the like30
Filets de pOche et seines en lin, chanvre et similaires
6550643 Fishing nets and seines of rayon (reduced duty) 96
Filets de pOche et seines en rayonne (droit rTduit)
L-
28?
10 10
642
(10)
178?
8,793?
80?
(12)
(13) .
I
72
5,214?
53?
(14)
(1 5)
0.
2?
3,393?
3,749?
*1.
4,641?
7
0
2'C
3.,712?
1
111
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..
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(16)
0e
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987
11
(11)
II
23
49? 5,098?
5,672?
(9)
(8)
0*
6@
0*-
i
392
406
0
3
588
23,716?
9,241
1,350?
1,096
27,068?
15,404
120
1,577
4,751
453
4,166
177
.1,636
*- ) I
--
23?
1,302?1,302? 32,774?
748?
31?
982?
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3,022
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2,468
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6,477
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