CELEX: 31977R1129
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1129/77 of 27 May 1977 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, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76 apply

28 . 5. 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 134/61
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1129/77
                                                      of 27 May 1977
               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 , originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff
                        arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76 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   42   tonnes, and          therefore the
 Economic Community,
                                                                maximum amount is 21 tonnes ; whereas on 25 May
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of
 3022/76 of 13 December 1976 opening, allocating                gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and sockettes,
 and providing for the administration of Community              not being knitted or crocheted goods, originating in
 tariff preferences for textile products originating in         Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­         arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
cular Article 4 thereof,                                        whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation              (EEC) No 3022/76 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 174 %              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 Annex D thereto, but not including products                                             Article 1
coming from countries already covered by various pref­
erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­          As from 31 May 1977, the levying of customs duties,
 nity, and 5% of the 1970 tonnage of such imports               suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
coming from other countries and from countries                  No 3022/76, shall be re-established in respect of the
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,                 following products, imported into the Community
 having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for                 and originating in Hong Kong :
 products originating in any one of the countries listed
in Annex D should be within a maximum Commu­
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nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with                  heading                     Description of goods
the exception of certain products for which the                        Nq
 maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage
indicated in Annex C to the abovementioned Regula­              61.10               Gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and
tion ;                                                                              sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted
                                                                                    goods
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that
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 exception of countries listed in Annex E          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
thereto, 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, 27 May 1977 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Stienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12. 1976, p . 69 .