CELEX: 31976D0648
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 31 March 1976 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to certain men's and boys' outer garments suits and jackets), falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 229/22                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                   20 . 8 . 76
                                               COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 31 March 1976
              authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to certain men's
              and boys' outer garments (suits and jackets), falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the
              Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other
                                                    Member States
                                          (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                     (76/648/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas     the   differences between     the  conditions
COMMUNITIES,                                                   governing the importation of the products in
                                                               question in the Member States have created an
                                                               indirect trade flow in the United Kingdom which
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   threatens to continue and to grow;
European Economic Community, and in particular
the first paragraph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                               Whereas, according to information supplied by the
Having regard to the application to the Commission             Government of the United Kingdom, there are
 under the first paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty,       serious economic difficulties in the industry
made on 24 March 1976 by the United Kingdom                    manufacturing the products in question resulting in a
 Government by telex from the office of its Permanent          progressive decline of production and a constant
Representative to the European Communities, for                reduction of the number of workers employed in
                                                               that sector ;
 authorization not to apply Community treatment to
 certain men's and boys' outer garments (suits and
jackets), falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the
 Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and              Whereas      these   economic  difficulties   are   caused
in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Ger­            largely by unequal conditions of competition with
 many,                                                         certain countries (including Taiwan) whereby such
                                                               countries are enabled to export at prices lower than
                                                               those of producers in the United Kingdom ;
Whereas the importation into the United Kingdom of
the products in question originating in Taiwan is
subject, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75             Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
of 10 July 1975 on rules for imports of certain                would be in addition to those already effected ,
 textile products originating in Taiwan (*), to a              would be likely to aggravate these economic
global quota for suits, jackets, blazers for men and           difficulties ;
 boys, fixed for 1976 at 114 metric tons, while in the
 Federal Republic of Germany the importation of
these same products originating in Taiwan is not               Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set
subject to any quota;                                           in motion the machinery for bringing about the
                                                               necessary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
 H OJ No L 182, 12. 7. 1975, p. 2.                             Germany and the other Member States ;
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Whereas authorization should be given, for a limited           where they originate in Taiwan and are in free
period, for the application of protective measures,            circulation in the other Member States, and in
under the first paragraph of Article 115, subject to           respect of which applications for import licences
the conditions laid down by the Commission                     were lodged after 14 March 1976.
Decision of 12 May 1971 (J ), and in particular
Article 1 thereof,
                                                                                      Article 2
                                                               This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                    arise in the United Kingdom for the importation of
                                                               the products in question from Taiwan and in any
                                                               case not later than 31 December 1976.
                         Article 1
The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
                                                                                      Article 3
Community treatment to imports of the following
products :
                                                               This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom.
     CCT
    heading                        Description
                                                               Done at Brussels, 31 March 1976.
       No
                                                                                       For the Commission
ex 61.01         Men's and boys' outer garments:
                                                                                        Christopher SOAMES
                 — Suits and jackets
                                                                                            Vice-President
(2) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .