CELEX: 31977R1911
Language: en
Date: 1977-08-23
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1911/77 of 23 August 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading No 46.02, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1911/77
                                                   of 23 August 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on plaiting materials bound
                together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading No 46.02, originating in
                Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council
                                          Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
COMMUNITIES,                                                   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 plaiting materials bound
                                                               together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   No 46.02, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                               should be 4 823 000 units of account, and therefore
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­
                                                               the maximum amount is 1 446 900 units of account ;
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
developing countries (J), and in particular Article 4 (2)      whereas on 19 August 1977, the amounts of imports
thereof,                                                       into the Community of plaiting materials bound
                                                               together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading
                                                               No 46.02, originating in Hong Kong, a country
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          provides that maximum amounts should not be
equal — with the exception of certain products the             exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of         respect of the products in question in relation to
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          Hong Kong,
adding together the value of the products in question
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 ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 As from 27 August 1977, the levying of customs
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the        duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the           (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the         of the following products, imported into the Commu­
second term of the addition ;                                  nity and originating in Hong Kong :
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Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                  heading                  Description of goods
 for products originating in any one of the countries or               No
 territories listed in Annex B to that ( Regulation should
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­                   46.02            Plaiting materials (other than products
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                            falling within heading No 46.01 ) bound
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to                            together in parallel strands or woven in
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                           sheet form, including matting, mats and
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                            screens ; straw envelopes for bottles
 reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
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
 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
 (1 ) 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, 23 August 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission