Just when you thought it was safe to go into the ICS, the
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
("Customs") has issued two new urgent Notices regarding
changes to law and practice to have effect from 1 January 2012
associated with the adoption of HS2012 and AHECC 2012.
Readers may well experience some level of frustration with the
dates of publication of these Notices. Notice No. 2011/62 regarding
the "Interaction between HS2012 and Product-Specific Rules
of Origin for Free Trade Agreements" is dated 13 December
2011 but only appears to have been published on Customs'
website in the last 24 hours. Further, the second Notice No.
2011/63 regarding "Changes associated with AHECC with
effect from 1 January 2012" bears no date other than
"December 2011" and, again, only appears to have been
published on Customs' website in the last 24 hours.
