CELEX: 31978R1611
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1611/78 of 10 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades, falling within subheading 42.03 B I and originating in Thailand, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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   No L 188 / 22                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                    11 . 7. 78
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1611 /78
                                                        of 10 July 1978
                   re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, including mittens and
                   mitts, protective, for all trades, falling within subheading 42.03 B I and origi­
                   nating in Thailand, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regu­
                                               lation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of gloves, including mittens and
   COMMUNITIES,                                                    mitts, protective, for all trades, falling within
                                                                   subheading 42.03 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
                                                                   cated above, should be 1 7 369 000 units of account,
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          and therefore the maximum amount is 2 605 350
    Economic Community,
                                                                   units of account ; whereas, on 7 July 1978 , the
                                                                   amounts of imports into the Community of gloves,
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades,
   2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              falling within subheading 42.03 B I and originating in
   tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     Thailand, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­
   developing countries ( 1), and in particular Article 4 (2)     gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
   thereof,                                                        bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
                                                                   should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
   Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                established in respect of the products in question in
   provides that customs duties may, for each category of          relation to Thailand,
    products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
   expressed in units of account, which will be equal —
   with the exception of certain products the value of the
   ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to
   the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
   products in question imported cif into the Commu­               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­
   ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
   products coming from countries and territories already
   covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
                                                                                             Article 1
   blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
    1975 cif imports coming from other countries and
   from countries and territories already covered by such
                                                                  As from 14 July 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
   arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting
   from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed             suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
   225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;               2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
                                                                   following products, imported into the Community
                                                                   and originating in Thailand :
   Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
   for products originating in any one of the countries or               CCT
   territories listed in Annex B to the aforesaid Regula­               heading                       Description
                                                                          No
   tion should be within a maximum Community
   amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the                                                                  /
   exception of certain products for which the maximum            42.03             Articles of apparel and clothing accesso­
   amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated                              ries, of leather or of composition leather :
   in Annex A thereto ; whereas, for these products, this                           B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts :
*  reduced percentage will be 1 5 % ;                                                    I. Protective, for all trades
  Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
   provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­
   established at any time in respect of imports of the
   products in question originating in any of the said                                       Article 2
  countries or territories — with the exception of those
   listed   in  Annex    C  thereto — once       the relevant
   Community amount has been reached ;                            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
  (') OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23 .                           the European Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 10 July 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Etienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission