CELEX: 31976R2858
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2858/76 of 23 November 1976 temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of tropical products

27 . 11 . 76                     Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 329 /9
                                COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2858 /76
                                              of 23 November 1976
             temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a
                                          number of tropical products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                 this tariff reduction should be made by way of a
COMMUNITIES,                                                temporary suspension of the autonomous Common
                                                            Customs Tariff duties on the products in question
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European       from 1 January to 31 December 1977,
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
thereof,
                                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
                                                                                      Article 1
Whereas in its Decision of 5 April 1976 the Council
approved a Community reduction, within the frame­           From 1 January to 31 December 1977, the auto­
work of the multilateral GATT negotiations, of the          nomous     Common       Customs    Tariff duties for the
Common Customs Tariff duties on certain tropical            products listed in the Annex shall be suspended at the
products, on the understanding that this reduction          levels indicated in respect of each of them .
would take effect as soon as possible ;
                                                                                      Article 2
Whereas, since the full results of these negotiations
for a definitive alteration of the Common Customs           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
Tariff will not be known before 31 December 1977,           1977 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels, 23 November 1976 .
                                                                         For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                   A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE
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                                                     ANNEX
                                                                                             Rate of
                  CCT
                                                                                           autonomous
                heading                               Description
                   No                                                                          duty
                                                                                               (%)
           08.01        Dates, bananas, coconuts, Brazil nuts, cashew nuts, pineapples,
                        avocados, mangoes, guavas and mangosteens, freh or dried,
                        shelled or not :
                        F. Cashew nuts                                                          0
           09.01        Coffee, whether or not roasted or freed of caffeine ; coffee husks
                        and skins ; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any propor­
                        tion :
                        A. Coffee :
                            I. Unroasted :
                                a) Not freed of caffeine                                        5
            18.01       Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted                            3
            18.02       Cocoa shells, husks, skins and waste                                    3