Customs Tariff Act
(CTA)

¹ In or­der to achieve the ob­ject­ives of the ag­ri­cul­tur­al le­gis­la­tion, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may fix the rates of duty for ag­ri­cul­tur­al products with­in the frame­work of the Gen­er­al Tar­iff; in do­ing so, it shall take ac­count of oth­er eco­nom­ic sec­tors.

² The im­ple­ment­a­tion au­thor­it­ies shall at the ne­ces­sary in­ter­vals com­pile the data on im­port volumes and prices of ag­ri­cul­tur­al products that is re­quired as the basis for de­term­in­ing the rates of duty.

³ If the mar­ket con­di­tions res­ult in a need for reg­u­lar modi­fic­a­tions, then the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may del­eg­ate the powers un­der para­graph 1 to the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, Edu­ca­tion and Re­search (EAER) or the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Ag­ri­cul­ture. It may only del­eg­ate the power to the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Ag­ri­cul­ture if it grants that of­fice only lim­ited dis­cre­tion in fix­ing the rates of duty.²⁰

⁴ Sub­ject the terms of Art­icle 13 para­graph 1 let­ters c and d of this Act, the fol­low­ing prin­ciples and re­spons­ib­il­it­ies are reg­u­lated in Art­icles 20–22 of the Ag­ri­cul­ture Act of 29 April 1998²¹:

a.

the fix­ing of threshold prices;

b.

the fix­ing, modi­fic­a­tion and dis­tri­bu­tion of the tar­iff quotas lis­ted in An­nex 2;

c.

the fix­ing, modi­fic­a­tion, and dis­tri­bu­tion of tar­iff quotas for ag­ri­cul­tur­al products in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 4 para­graph 3 let­ter c.²²