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Date: 1988-02-10
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation No 2658/87 on the Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (submitted by the Commission)

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                                                             COM(88 ) 45 final
                                                             Brussels , 10 February 1988
                                      Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
amending Regulation No 2658 /87 on the Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature
                      and on the Common Customs Tariff
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                         Explanatorv Hemorandum
1 .  Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 of 23 July 1987 introduces
     with effect from 1 January 1988 a goods nomenclature , known as
     the Combined Nomenclature ( CN ) , to meet the requirements both
     of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade
     statistics of the Community .
2 .  The annexed Draft Regulation aims to amend the Combined
     Nomenclature and the Common Customs Tariff ( CCT ) to correct an
     error that occurred during the transposition of the Common
     Customs Tariff into the Harmonized System .
3 .  The CN code concerned is 8527 32 00 , which covers
     ff _ Other radio broadcast receivers
          - not combined with sound recording or reproducing
            apparatus but combined with a clock "
4 .  In arriving at the zero rate of duty for that code only the
     1987 CCT subheading 85.15 A III b ) 2 bb ) 11 ( conventional rate
     of duty : free ) for " clock radios " was taken into account .
5.   In fact CN code 8527 32 00 also covers certain goods of 1987
     CCT subheading 85.15 A III b ) 2 bb ) 55 ( conventional rate of
     duty : 14% ). These goods include such items as hi-fi tuners or
     tuner amplifiers incorporating a clock .
6 .  As a result of this transposition those tuners and tuner
     amplifiers which incorporate a clock may now be imported free
     of duty rather than paying the 14% duty that existed prior to
     1.1 . 1988 .
7.   This proposal aims to rectify the situation by subdividing
     8527 32 00 into clock radios ( free of duty ) and other
      ( conventional rate 14% ).
Conclusions
8 .  In order to remedy this situation it is suggested that this
     measure be adopted at the earliest possible date .
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 ---pagebreak---                                    Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
           amending Regulation No 2658 / 87 on the Tariff and Statistical
                   Nomenclature and on the Common Customs- Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community , and in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Uhereas      Counci l     Régulation     ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 (1 )
established a goods nomenclature based on the Harmonized System ,
hereinafter called the 'Combined Nomenclature' , to meet , at one and
the same time , the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff
and of the external trade statistics of the Community and fixed the
autonomous and conventional rates of duty of the Common Customs
Tariff ;
Uhereas during the transposition of the Common Customs Tariff into
the Harmonized System , in order to establish the conventional rate
of duty for Combined Nomenclature Code 8527 32 00 , account was
taken only of " clock radios " previously free of duty at the
conventional rate under Common Customs Tariff subheading
85.15 A III b 2 bb ) 11 ( 2 ); whereas Combined Nomenclature code
8527 32 00 also covers tuners and tuner amplifiers , combined with a
clock , previously liable to duty at the conventional rate of 14%
under Common Customs Tariff subheading 85.15 A III b ) 1 bb ) 55 ;
Uhereas to rectify this error it is therefore necessary to amend
Annex I of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 to take account of this
latter rate of duty ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                      Article 1
1 .     Annex I to Regulation ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 is hereby amended in
        accordance with the Annex hereto .
2 .     The amendments provided for in this regulation shall be
        applied as TARIC subheadings until their introduction into the
        Combined Nomenclature under the conditions laid down in
        Article 12 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 .
( 1 ) OJ No L 256 , 7.9.1987 , p.      1 .
 ( 2 ) OJ No L 345 , 8.12.1987 , p. 1 .
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This Regulation shall enter into force the day following its
publication in the Official Journal .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,                  For the Council
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                                                              Rate of duty
     CN                    Description
   code                                                   autonomous  conven¬       Supplementary
                                                             (S)      tions ! ( % )    unit
     1                           2                              3           4             5
8527       Reception apparatus for radio-telephony ,
           radio-telegraphy or radio-broadcasting ,
           whether or not combined , in the same
           housing , with sound recording or
           reproducing apparatus or a clock :
8527 11
to         ( unchanged )
8527 29 00
           - Other radio-broadcast receivers ,
              including apparatus capable of receiving
              also radio-telephony or radio- telegraphy :
8527 31
to         ( unchanged )
8527 31 99
8527 32    - - Not combined with sound recording or
                reproducing apparatus but combined with
                a clock :
8527 32 10    - - Clock radios                               22            Free
8527 32 90    - - Other                                      22            14
8527 39
to         ( unchanged )
8527 90 99
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