CELEX: 31973R2166
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-08
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2166/73 of the Commission of 8 August 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper; hollow bars of copper, falling within heading No 74.07 originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

No L 221 / 12                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                9 . 8 . 73
                          REGULATION (EEC) No 2166/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 8 August 1973
               re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on tubes and pipes and blanks
               therefor of copper ; hollow bars of copper, falling within heading No 74.07 origi­
               nating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                       Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, in respect of tubes and pipes and blanks
COMMUNITIES,                                                  therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of copper the ceiling,
                                                              calculated as indicated above, should be 3 1 66 000
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         units of account and therefore the maximum amount
Economic Community ;
                                                               1 583 000 units of account ; whereas on 3 August
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   1973 the amounts of imports into the Community of
2762/72 (J) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­          tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper ;
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating     hollow bars of copper, originating in Yugoslavia, a
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)      country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
thereof ;                                                     reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation              mind the objectives of Regulation 2762/72, which
provided that the Common Customs Tariff duties                provides that maximum amounts should not be
may, for each category of products, be suspended up           exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should be
to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                 re-established in respect of the products in question
account, which will usually be equal to the sum               in relation to Yugoslavia ;
arrived at by adding together the value of the products
in question imported cif into the Community in 1968           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products                                         Article 1
coming from countries and territories already covered         As from 12 August 1973, Common Customs Tariff
by various preferential tariff arrangements established       duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif            (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be
imports coming from other countries and from coun­            re-established in respect of the following products,
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­        imported into the Community and originating in
ments ;
                                                              Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or          CCT heading
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should             No                          Description
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exeception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
                                                                  74.07         Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor,
                                                                                 of copper ; hollow bars of copper
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                                Article 2
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
countries once the relevant Community maximum                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
amount has been reduced :                                      the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                Done at Brussels, 8 August 1973 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                             The President
                                                                       François-Xavier ORTOLI
O OJ No L 296, 30. 12. 1972, p. 15.