CELEX: 31975D0484
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 July 1975 derogating from High Authority recommendation No 1/64 concerning an increase in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the Community (sixty-eighth derogation)

9 . 8 . 75                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 212/29
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 17 July 1975
              derogating from High Authority recommendation No 1/64 concerning an increase in the
              protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the Community
                                                   (sixty-eighth derogation)
                                                         (75 /484/ECSC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      States are based, also allow, given present conditions
COMMUNITIES,                                                        on the common market in steel, of their application
                                                                    within the framework of recommendation No 1 /64
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                        of 15 January 1964; whereas neither this suspension
European Coal and Steel Community, and in                           of duties nor these tariff quotas are likely to
particular Articles 2 to 5 , 8 , 71 and 74 thereof;                 jeopardize the objectives of the said recommen­
                                                                    dation ; whereas, furthermore, such tariff measures
                                                                    help to maintain existing trade flows between the
Having regard to High Authority recommendation                      Member States and third countries ;
No 1 /64 (*) of 15 January 1964 to the Governments
of the Member States concerning an increase in the
protective duty on iron and steel products at the
external frontiers of the Community, and in                         Whereas these are special cases in the commercial
particular Article 3 thereof;                                       policy field justifying the authorization of
                                                                    derogations pursuant to Article 3 of recommendation
                                                                    No 1 /64;
Having regard to the agreement reached on 10 July
 1975 by the representatives of the Member States
meeting within the Council on tariff measures to be                 Whereas provision should be made to ensure that the
 taken for the second six months of 1975 ;
                                                                    quotas granted will be used solely to supply the
                                                                    needs of industries in the importing countries and that
 Whereas, for years past, the representatives of the                re-exportation in the unaltered state to other Member
Governments of the Member States meeting within                     States of imported iron and steel products will be
 the Council have unanimously agreed on six­                        prevented;
 monthly derogations from the harmonized
 Community customs duties for steel ; whereas these
 derogations take the form either of a reduction or                 Whereas the Governments of the Member States
 temporary suspension of certain customs duties or of               have been consulted on the tariff quotas set out
 the granting of tariff quotas at reduced or suspended               below,
 rates of duty; whereas the last tariff measures of this
 kind were taken by the representatives of the
 Governments of the Member States on 10 July 1975
 in respect of the second six months of 1975 ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
 Whereas such measures are justified by the fact that
 the products in question are not manufactured, or
                                                                                             Article 1
 are manufactured in insufficient quantities, in the
 Community and that their importation on
 preferential terms is not injurious to iron and steel
 undertakings in the Community which produce                         The Governments of the Member States are hereby
 directly competing products ;                                       authorized to derogate from the obligations arising
                                                                     under Article 1 of High Authority recommendation
                                                                     No 1 /64 of 15 January 1964 to the extent necessary
 Whereas these reasons and circumstances, on which                   to introduce, in respect of imports from third
 the six-monthly tariff measures taken by the Member                 countries of the iron and steel products set out
                                                                     below, suspension of duties or tariff quotas up to the
                                                                     quantities and at the levels indicated in respect of
  (!) OJ No 8, 22. 1 . 1964, p. 99/64.                               each of those products :
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                 CCT heading                                                Member   Quota
                                         Description of goods                       (metric Duty
                     No                                                      States         (%)
                                                                                      tons)
            ex 73.15 A V b) 1 Special wire rod (wire rod of high      Germany (FR)   1900    0
                              carbon steel, not further worked        Benelux        9 000   0
                              than hot-rolled, between 4*5 and        France        4 000    0
                              6 mm in diameter and of a carbon        Italy         6 500    0
                              content in weight of between 0-62       Ireland       3 000    0
                              and 0-74 %) for the tyre industry
            ex 73.15 A V b) 1 Special wire rod (wire rod of high      Benelux        1800    0
                              carbon steel, not further worked
                              than hot-rolled, between 4-5 and
                              6 mm in diameter and of a carbon
                              content in weight of between 0-62
                              and 0-85 °/o) for the tyre industry
            ex 73.15 A V b) 1 Special wire rod (of high carbon        Germany (FR)  8 500    0
                              steel, not further worked than          Benelux        1350    0
                              hot-rolled, between 4-5 and 13 mm       France         1200    0
                              in diameter) for the manufacture
                              of springs and 'piano wire', con­
                              taining in weight
                              — 0-60 to 1-05 % of carbon
                              — not      more     than    0-05 °/o of
                                   sulphur and phosphorus taken
                                   together
                              — 0*15 to 0-30 silicon
                              — not more than 0-10 a/o of all
                                   other elements (with the ex­
                                   ception of manganese and
                                   chromium) taken together
                              (Germany and Benelux are autho­
                              rized to import — within their
                              quotas — special wire rod of alloy
                              steels, between 4-5 and 13 mm in
                              diameter, for valve springs, with
                              the following characteristics :
                               (a) Chrome-vanadium products :
                                   0-40 to 0-65 °/o C,
                                   0-15 to 0-30 °/o Si,
                                   0-60 to 0-90 °/o Mn,
                                   0-15 to 1-10 °/o Cr,
                                   0-15 to 0-30 °/o Va,
                                   not more than 0-30 % Mo
                                   P and S content of less than
                                   0-035 °/o each;
                               (b) Chrome-silicon products :
                                   0-50 to  0-60 °/o C,
                                   1-35 to  1-60 %   Si,
                                   0-60 to  0-80 %   Mn,
                                   0-55 to  0-80 %   Cr,
                                   P and S content of less than
                                   0-035 % each)
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                 CCT heading                                              Member          Quota  Duty
                     No                    Description of goods            States        (metric m
                                                                                          tons)
           ex 73.15 B VII a) 1   'Electrical' sheets and plates of Germany (FR)           1 300   0
                                 allied steel, grain-oriented, highly
                                 permeable, with a watt-loss of
                                 1-23 watt or less per kg for a
                                 thickness of 0-30 mm, or of 1-26
                                 watt or less per kg for a thickness
                                 of 0-35 mm, measured at 17 000
                                 gauss and 50 Hz
           ex. 73.16 A II b )    Used rails for re-rolling            France            33 000    0
                                                         Article 2
           1.      Member States accorded quotas under Article 1 of this Decision shall ensure,
           in liaison with the Commission, that such quotas are apportioned among third countries
           on a non-discriminatory basis.
           2.      They shall take all necessary steps to preclude the possibility of iron and steel
           products imported under the said tariff quotas being re-exported to other Member
           States in the same state as that in which they were imported.
                                                         Article 3
           This Decision shall remain in force until 31 December 1975 .
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
           Done at Brussels, 17 July 1975.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                         Fran5ois-Xavier ORTOLI