CELEX: 31974R2888
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2888/74 of the Commission of 19 November 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale, falling within subheading 55.05 B I, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

No L 309/8                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                      20 . 11 . 74
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2888/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 19 November 1974
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn , not put up for
               retail sale, falling within subheading 55.05 B I , originating in developing coun­
               tries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation
                                     (EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    products in question, originating in countries covered
COMMUNITIES,                                                      by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                                  ceiling ; whereas, "bearing in mind the objectives of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73, which provides that
Economic Community ;                                              the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      should be re-established in respect of the products in
3503/73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­              question,
ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­
nating in developing countries, and in particular
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 4 (2) thereof ;
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that                                       Article 1
customs duties may, for each category of products, be
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 150%                 As     from    23    November        1974,      customs      duties,
the sum arrived at by adding together the metric                  suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
tonnage of the products in question, imported into                No      3503/73     of  18    December          1973 ,   shall    be
the Community in 1968 and coming from countries                   re-established in respect of the following products,
listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not                     imported into the Community :
including products coming from countries already                         CCT
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­              heading                    Description of goods
blished by the Community, and 5% of the 1970                              No
metric tonnage of such imports coming from other
countries and from countries already covered by such               55.05             Cotton yarn , not put up for retail sale :
arrangements ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation                            B. Other :
provides that customs duties may be re-established at                                    L Measuring, per single yarn , 120 000
any time once the Community ceiling has been                                               or more per kg
reached ;
Whereas in respect of cotton yarn, not put up for                                            Article 2
retail sale falling within subheading 55.05 B I, the
ceiling, calculated as indicated above should be 30                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 metric tons ; whereas on 15 November 1974 the                     following its publication in the Official Journal of
 amounts of imports into the Community of the                      the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 19 November 1974.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORT'OLI
 (') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 69 .