CELEX: 31976R0281
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 281/76 of 10 February 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades falling within subheading 42.03 B I, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

No L 36/8                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                     11 . 2. 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 281 /76
                                                  of 10 February 1976
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on gloves, including mittens
               and mitts, protective, for all trades falling within subheading 42.03 B I, origi­
               nating in Hong Kong , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                         Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of gloves, including mittens and
COMMUNITIES,                                                   mitts, protective, for all trades falling within
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          subheading 42.03 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
Economic Community,                                            cated above, should be 12 632 000 units of account,
                                                               and     therefore    the    maximum         2 526 400  units   of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   account ; whereas on 6 February 1976, the amounts of
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­             imports into the Community of gloves, including
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades falling
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4(2)       within subheading 42.03 B I, originating in Hong
thereof,
                                                               Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               No 3010/75 which provides that maximum amounts
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          should not be exceeded , customs duties should be
equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding                 re-established in respect of the products in question
together the value of the products in question                 in relation to Hong Kong,
imported cif into the Community in 1971 and
coming from countries and territories covered by                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
those arrangements, but not including products                                              Article 1
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established        As from 14 February 1976 the levying of customs
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         re-established in respect of the following products,
ments ;                                                         imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
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territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should              heading                     Description of goods
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                            No
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to            42.03               Articles of apparel and clothing accesso­
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                               ries, of leather or of composition leather :
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
                                                                                   B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts :
reduced percentage will be 20 % .
                                                                                        I. Protective, for all trades
Whereas Article 2 (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 or territo­      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
ries once the relevant Community amount has been                following its publication in the Official Journal of
reached ;                                                       the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 10 February 1976 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .