CELEX: 31978R0664
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 664/78 of 3 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades, falling within subheading 42.03 B I and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 89/20                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                      4 . 4 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 664/78
                                                     of 3 April 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, including mittens and
               mitts, protective, for all trades, falling within subheading 42.03 B I and origi­
               nating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                         Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  listed   in  Annex   C    thereto — once          the  relevant
COMMUNITIES,                                                    Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas, in respect of gloves, including mittens and
Economic Community,
                                                                mitts, protective, for all trades, falling within
                                                                subheading 42.03 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
                                                                cated above, should be 17 369 000 units of account,
                                                                and therefore the       maximum amount is 2 605 350
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                units of account ; whereas, on 17 March 1978 , the
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      amounts of imports into the Community of gloves,
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades,
thereof,                                                        falling within subheading 42.03 B I and originating in
                                                                Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
                                                                arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
provides that customs duties may, for each category of          (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,               amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —            should be re-established in respect of the products in
with the exception of certain products the value of the         question in relation to Kong Kong,
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
products coming from countries and territories already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of                                         Article 1
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and
from countries and territories already covered by such
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting          As from 7 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed             suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;               No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
                                                                following products, 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                CCT
territories listed in Annex B thereto should be within               heading                        Description
                                                                        No
a maximum Community amount representing 50 %
of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products
                                                                42.03            Articles of apparel and clothing accesso­
for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to
the percentage indicated in Annex A to the afore-said                            ries, of leather or of composition leather :
Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced                           B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts :
percentage will be 1 5 % ;                                                            I. Protective, for all trades
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­
                                                                                          Article 2
established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said
countries or territories — with the exception of those          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
(>) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, 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, 3 April 1978 .
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                            Member of the Commission