CELEX: 31976R0347
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 347/76 of 18 February 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other sewing machines; furniture specially designed for sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41 A I b), originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

No L 43/ 12                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    19 . 2. 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 347/76
                                                  of 18 February 1976
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other sewing machines ;
                furniture specially designed for sewing machines, falling within subheading
               84.41 A I b), originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrange­
               ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975
                                                           apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   maximum 655 800 units of account ; whereas on 12
COMMUNITIES,                                                     February 1976, the amounts of imports into the
                                                                 Community of other sewing machines ; furniture
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            specially designed for sewing machines, originating in
Economic Community,                                              South Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff
                                                                 arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­               (EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that maximum
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in       amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)        should be re-established in respect of the products in
thereof,                                                         question in relation to South Korea,
Whereas Article       1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
provides that the     customs duties may, for each cate­
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
gory of products,     be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed    in units of account, which will be
equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding
                                                                                           Article 1
together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1971 and
coming from countries and territories covered by                 As from 22 February 1976, the levying of customs
those arrangements, but not including products                   duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
coming from countries and territories already covered            (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
by various preferential tariff arrangements established          re-established in respect of the following products,
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif               imported into the Community and originating in
imports coming from other countries and from coun­               South Korea :
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ;                                                                 CCT
                                                                       heading                 Description of goods
                                                                         No
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should          84.41            Sewing machines ; furniture specially
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                       designed for sewing machines ; sewing
                                                                                  machine needles :
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               A. Sewing machines ; furniture specially
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                  designed for sewing machines :
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                                   I. Sewing machines (lock-stitch only),
 reduced percentage will be 30 % .                                                       with heads of a weight not
                                                                                         exceeding 16 kg without motor or
                                                                                          17 kg including the motor ; sewing
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                   machine heads (lock-stitch only), of
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                  a weight not exceeding 16 kg
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                  without motor or 17 kg including
 tion originating >n any of the said countries or territo­                               the motor :
 ries once the relevant Community amount has been                                        b) Other
 reached ;
Whereas, in respect of other sewing machines ; furni­
 ture specially designed for sewing machines, the                                          Article 2
 ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
 2 186 000     units   of  account,   and   therefore  the       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .                          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, 18 February 1976.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                               Member of the Commission