Provisional Translation
| OTO No. | 288 | Classification | MOF-58 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of Acceptance | August 7, 1987 | Ministry/Agency Receiving Complaint | Economic Planning Agency |
| Responsible Ministries | Ministry of Finance | Related Laws | Customs Law |
| Complainant | Keidanren (proxy complaint) | Exporting Countries | |
| Subject | Approval for concurrent storage of heavy crude oil to be used for processing of petrochemical products (heavy NGL) and petroleum sprits (naphtha) as a test case. | ||
| Details of Measures | It was replied that concurrent storage can only be approved pursuant to the Customs Law (notification) and the Temporary Tariff Measures Law (notification), and that there is no provision for approval for concurrent storage in this particular case, but the views of the industries concerned will be heard and in each case study will be given to the possibility of permitting such concurrent storage as a test case and to what conditions might be attached to test-case approval to put heavy NGL or naphtha into a tank which formerly contained the other (naphtha or heavy NGL) and in which the former substance (naphtha or heavy NGL) is residually present as dead stock, taking into account of arrangement of tanks and other factors, assuming that there is no alternative to such concurrent storage and that such concurrent storage does not create problems in terms of the Customs Law. | ||
| Classification of Processing | A | Directions | III |
| Remarks | Improvement measures were taken on June 21, 1988. | ||