CELEX: 31978R1894
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1894/78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, falling within heading No 61.10 and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

No L 216/34                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                       5 . 8 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1894/78
                                                      of 2 August 1978
             re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­
             ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, falling within
             heading No 61.10 and originating in Hong Kong , to which the preferential tariff
                    arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             crocheted goods, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                                  above, should         be   21   tonnes, and      therefore      the
Economic Community,
                                                                  maximum amount is 10.5 tonnes ; whereas on 24 July
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of
1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and                    gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and sockettes,
providing for the administration of Community tariff              not being knitted or crocheted goods, originating in
preferences for textile products originating in deve­             Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
loping countries and territories ('), and in particular           arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Article 4 thereof,                                                whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                (EEC) No 1197/78 which provides that maximum
provides that customs duties may, for each category of            amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be                 should be re-established in respect of the products in
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %                 question in relation to Hong Kong,
of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of
the products in question, in tonnes, imported into the            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed
in its Annex D, but not including products coming                                              Article 1
from countries already covered by various preferential            As from 8 August 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
tariff arrangements established by the Community,                 suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming                No 1197/78 shall be re-established in respect of the
from other countries and from countries already                   following products, imported into the Community
covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard             and originating in Hong Kong :
to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating
in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                              CCT
                                                                        heading                        Description
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                       No
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to              61.10                Gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and
the abovementioned Regulation ; .                                                      sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted
Whereas Article d (2) of that Regulation provides that                                 goods
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                        Article 2
tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­
tories, with the exception of countries listed in its             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Annex E, once the relevant Community maximum                       following its publication in the Official Journal of
 amount has been reached ;                                         the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 2 August 1978 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                          Member of the Commission
 (M OJ No L 149 , 5 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 .