CELEX: 31977R0348
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 348/77 of 18 February 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades falling within subheading 42.03 B I, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

19 . 2 . 77                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 48 / 25
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 348 /77
                                                    of 18 February 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on gloves , including mittens
                and mitts, protective , for all trades falling within subheading 42.03 B I , origi­
                nating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                      Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
                                                                 of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
                                                                  nity amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas, in respect of gloves, including mittens and
                                                                  mitts, protective, for all trades falling within
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      subheading 42.03 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­               cated above , should be 1 5 790 000 units of account,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in        and therefore the maximum amount is 3 158 000
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)         units of account ; whereas on 14 February 1977, the
thereof,                                                          amounts of imports into the Community of gloves,
                                                                  including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                  falling within subheading 42.03 B I, originating in
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­              Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                  arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be             whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
equal — with the exception of certain products the                ( EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that maximum
                                                                  amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by             should be re-established in respect of the products in
adding together the value of the products in question             question in relation to Hong Kong,
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                                          Article 1
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of
                                                                  As from 22 February 1977, the levying of customs
this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for
                                                                  ( EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of
                                                                  of the following products, imported into the Commu­
the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of
the addition ;
                                                                  nity and originating in Hong Kong :
                                                                         CCT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                     heading                  Description of goods
                                                                          No
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                       42.03           Articles of apparel and clothing accesso­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                                ries, of leather or of composition leather :
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                    I. Protective, for all trades
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                      Article 2
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                   following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12 . 1976 , 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, 18 February 1977.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Antonio GIOLITTI
                                                               Member of the Commission