CELEX: 31974R1504
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1504/74 of the Commission of 17 June 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton, falling within CCT subheading 60.04 A, originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

18 . 6 . 74                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No L 162/7
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1504/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 17 June 1974
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on under garments, knitted or
               crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton, falling within CCT subheading
               60.04 A, originating in India, 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                                  Whereas, in respect of under garments, knitted or
COMMUNITIES,                                                     crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton, the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 360
                                                                 metric tons, and therefore the maximum amount 108
Economic Community ;
                                                                 metric tons ; whereas on 13 June 1974, the amounts
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     of imports into the Community of under garments,
3503/73 (J ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­            knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of
ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­     cotton originating in India, a country covered by pref­
nating in developing countries, and in particular                erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
Article 4 (2) thereof ;                                          amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73, which provides that
provides that customs duties may, for each category of           maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling                 duties should be re-established respect of the products
equal to 150 % of the sum arrived at by adding                   in question in relation to India,
together the value of the products in question, in
metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that
Regulation, but not including products coming from                                            Article 1
countries already covered by various preferential tariff
arrangements established by the Community, and                   As from 21 June 1974, the levying of customs duties,
5 % of the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports                   suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No     3503/73      of    18   December          1973,  shall be
coming from other countries and from countries
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,                  re-established in respect of the following products,
having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for                   imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                 India :
products originating in any one of the countries listed
in Annex B to that Regulation should be Within a
                                                                       OCT
maximum Community amount representing 50 % of                         heading                     Description of goods
that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for                No
which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the
percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ;             60.04               Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not
whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage                                elastic or rubberized, of cotton :
will be 30 % ;                                                                      A. Of cotton
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                        Article 2
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
has been reached ;                                               the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 17 June 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(>) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , p. 69 .