CELEX: 31976R1663
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1663/76 of 8 July 1976 on the opening of tariff preferences in the form of a partial suspension of customs duties for jute manufactures originating in India, Thailand and Bangladesh and for coir manufactures originating in India and Sri Lanka

No L 185/20                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               9 . 7 . 76
                                        COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1663/76
                                                            of 8 July 1976
              on the opening of tariff preferences in the form of a partial suspension of
              customs duties for jute manufactures originating in India, Thailand and Bangla­
                      desh and for coir manufactures originating in India and Sri Lanka
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                           1975 for the first half of the 1976 preference year ;
COMMUNITIES,                                                          whereas, since the situation in Bangladesh as regards
                                                                      jute products is substantially the same as that
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 described above, the same arrangements have also
Economic Community,
                                                                      been adopted for that country ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    Whereas the negotiations with India on coir products
Whereas, within the context of UNCTAD , the Euro­                     have recently been completed and provide for a reduc­
                                                                      tion of 80 % in the Common Customs Tariff duties
pean Economic Community offered to grant tariff
preferences on finished and semi-finished products                    from 1 July 1976 ; whereas that reduction should be
coming from developing countries ; whereas the pref­                  applied on the above date in the context of the gener­
erential treatment proposed in that offer covers, gener­              alized preferences scheme ; whereas progress in the
ally speaking, all finished and semi-finished industrial              new negotiations with India and Bangladesh on jute
products in Chapters 25 to 99 of the Brussels Nomen­                  products suggests that at the present time the preferen­
clature which originate in developing countries ;                     tial tariff arrangements adopted for the first half of
                                                                      1976 should only be renewed until the end of that
Whereas the offer made by the Community includes a                    year ; whereas, in view of the special arrangements
clause stating that the Community drew up the offer                   between the Community and Sri Lanka for coir manu­
on the assumption that all the main industrialized                    factures and between the Community and Thailand
countries which are members of the OECD ' would                       for jute manufactures, the decision may also be taken
participate in granting preferences and would make                    to adopt or renew the existing preferential tariff arran­
similar efforts in this direction ; whereas, moreover, it             gements for those two countries ;
is   evident  from     the   conclusions        worked   out   in
                                                                      Whereas , in accordance with Protocol 23 to the Act of
UNCTAD that this offer, while being of a temporary
nature, does not constitute a binding commitment                      Accession (3 ), the generalized preferences scheme
and, in particular, may be withdrawn wholly or in part                became fully applicable in the new Member States on
at a later date ; whereas this facility may be retained,              1 January 1974 ;
among other reasons, in order to remedy any unfavou­                  Whereas the benefit of these suspensions should be
rable situations which might arise in the ACP States                  restricted to the said products originating in India,
following the implementation of the generalized pref­                 Bangladesh , Thailand and Sri Lanka, the concept of
erences scheme ;                                                      'originating products' being determined in accordance
                                                                      with the procedure laid down in Article 14 of Council
Whereas, however, as regards jute and coir products,
the said offer includes the elimination of customs                    Regulation ( EEC) No 802/68 of 27 June 1968 on the
                                                                      common definition of the concept of the origin of
duties only where special arrangements have been
made with the exporting developing countries ;                        goods (4 ),
Whereas the Agreements concluded between the                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community and India on jute ( 1 ) and coir (2 ) manufac­
tures expired on 31 December 1975 ; whereas,                                                      Article 1
pending the conclusion of a new agreement with
India specifying the conditions for the implementa­                    1.     From 1 July until 31 December 1976 the
tion of the abovementioned special arrangements, the                  Common Customs Tariff on products listed here­
Community has decided that it is appropriate to                        inafter shall be suspended at the following preferential
renew the preferential tariff arrangements in force in                 rates :
(') OJ No L 82, 27 . 3 . 1974 , p . 11 .                              ( 3 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
(-') OJ No L 82 , 27 . 3 . 1974 , p . 17 .                             (4 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 1 .
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                                                                                                          Preferential
                   CCT
                                                                                                              rates
                  heading                                      Description
                    No                                                                                      of duty
                                                                                                               %
                 57.06        Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading No 57.03                 3.2
                 57.10        Woven fabrics of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading
                              No 57.03 :
                              A. Of a width of not more than 150 cm and weighing per m 2 :
                                     I. Less than 310 g                                                        8
                                   II . Not less than 310 g but not more than 500 g                            7-6
                                  III . More than 500 g                                                        6
                              B. Of a width of more than 150 cm                                              11
                 58.02        Other carpets, carpeting, rugs, mats and matting and ' Kelem ',
                              'Schumacks' and ' Karamanie' rugs and the like (made up or
                              not) :
                              A. Carpets, carpeting, rugs, mats and matting :
                                  ex I. Coir mats and coir matting and tufted carpets of coir                  4.6
                                             Tufted carpets of other textile bast fibres of heading
                                             No 57.03                                                          9.2
                                  ex II . Carpets, carpeting, rugs, mats and matting, of jute or
                                             of other textile bast fibres of heading No 57.03                  0
              ex 59.04        Twine , cordage, ropes and cables, plaited or not, of jute or of
                              other textile bast fibres of heading No 57.03                                    0
                 62.03        Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods :
                              A. of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading No 57.03 :
                                  II . Other :
                                        (a ) Of fabric weighing less than 310 g/m 2                            8
                                        (b) Of fabric weighing not less than 310 g/ m 2 but not
                                             more than 500 g/ m 2                                              7.6
                                        (c) Of fabric weighing more than 500 g/ m 2                            6
2. On importation of the said goods into Denmark                         purposes of this Regulation , the concept of 'origi­
and the United Kingdom , the duties to be applied                        nating products' shall be determined in accordance
shall be those of their customs tariffs suspended at the                 with the procedure laid down in Article 14 of Regula­
level applied in 1973 . For textile products falling                     tion (EEC) No 802/68 .
within heading Nos 57.06 and 57.10 , and subheading
62.03 A II , referred to in paragraph 1 , Ireland shall
align its national customs tariff duties on the above­
                                                                                                 Article 2
mentioned preferential rates on the dates and
according to the timetable fixed in Article 39 ( 1 ) and
(2) of the Act of Accession .                                             1.   The Commission , in close collaboration with the
                                                                         Member States, shall take all necessary measures to
                                                                         ensure that the foregoing provisions are applied .
                                                                         2. The Member States shall regularly inform the
                                                                         Commission of imports benefiting under the
                                                                          preceding provisions .
3.     The benefit of the suspensions referred to in
paragraph 1 shall be afforded until 31 December 1976
to products originating in India . Products originating                                          Article 3
in Bangladesh and Thailand , with the exception of
coir mats and matting and tufted carpets of coir, shall
also benefit from these suspensions . Coir mats and                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
matting and tufted carpets of coir originating in Sri                     publication in the Official Journal of the European
Lanka shall also benefit from the suspensions . For the                   Communities and shall apply from 1 July 1976 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 8 July 1976.
                                                                    For the Council
                                                                      The President
                                                                    M. van der STOEL