CELEX: 31974R2142
Language: en
Date: 1974-08-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2142/74 of the Commission of 13 August 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on undergarments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton, falling within subheading 60.04 A, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

14. 8 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                          No L 225/ 21
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2142/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 13 August 1974
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on undergarments, knitted or
               crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton , falling within subheading 60.04 A,
               originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrange­
               ments set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973
                                                             apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     of imports into the Community of the products in
COMMUNITIES,                                                       question, originating in countries covered by preferen­
                                                                   tial tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
Economic Community ;                                               No 3503/73 , which provides that the ceiling should
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       not     be        exceeded ,     customs        duties     should   be
3503/73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­               re-established in respect of the products in 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 17 August 1974, customs duties, suspended
of the sum arrived at by adding together the metric                in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   3503 / 73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be re-established
tonnage of the products in question, imported into
the Community in 1968 and coming from countries                    in respect of the following products, imported into the
listed in Annex B to that Regulation , but not                     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               60.04                  Undergarments, knitted or crocheted , not
arrangements ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation                                 elastic or rubberized :
provides that customs duties may be re-established at                                     A. of cotton
any time once the Community ceiling has been
reached ;
                                                                                                   Article 2
Whereas, in respect of undergarments, knitted or
crocheted , not elastic or rubberized , of cotton , the            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 360              following its publication in the Official Journal of
metric tons ; whereas on 8 August 1974 the amounts                  the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 1 3 August 1 974 .
                                                                                  /■'or the Commission
                                                                                       The President
                                                                              l ? r;incois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') Ol No I. 35K . 2S . 12 . IT1 , p. 69 .