CELEX: 51974PC0804
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-10
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3509/73 on the opening of tariff preferences in the form of a partial suspension of customs duties for products made from jute and coir originating in India and products made from jute originating in Bangladesh, in respect of the description of the products and its period of application (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                            GOM ( 74) 804 final
                                                            Brussels . 10 June 1974
                                  PROPOSAL FOR A
                        REGULATION (EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
   amending Council Regulation (EEC ) No 3509/ 73 on the opening of tariff
       preferences in the form of a partial suspension of customs duties
            for products made from jute and coir originating in India
              and products made from jute originating in Bangladesh ,
                 in respect of the description of the products
                        and its period of application
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
  COM ( 74) 804 final
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                                 explanatory m^oh/jtdu m
1.    Council Regulation (EEC) No 3509/?3^ of 18 December 1973 opened
      tariff preferences in the form of a partial and preferential suspension
      of customs duties *
      (i)      until 31 December 1974 ? for products made from jute , and coir,
               originating in ir.dia ,
    ( ii)      until 30 June 1974? for products made from jute , originating
               in Bangladesh,
2.    As regards India, the suspension measure in question was decided in
      advance of the entry into force of the Agreement between the Community
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      and India on, inter alia,     manufactured jute products .   A discrepancy
      exisis between the description of the jute products given in
     Regulation (EEC ) No 3509/73 above and that given in the Agreement with
      India z   the Regulation in question refers only to jute products proper
     whereas tae Agreement includes products made from jute and other textile
     bact     fibres of heading No 57»03 «
     The object of the proposal for a regulation annexed hereto is , inter
     a!       to bring the text of Regulation (EEC) No 3509/73 into line with
     that of the Agreement with India ;      since the resulting amendment is
     not substantial , it seeded appropriate to deal with it together with
     the one set cut below .
3.   As   regards Bangladesh, the preferential suspension of customs duty
     for jute products was limited to 30 June 1974 sinoe at that time
     negotiations with that country for the conclusion cf an agreement on
     the products in question were ft ill under way.      These negotiations
     are new almost concluded and as regards the preferential tariff
                                                                         c/.
 OJ No L 358* ¿8 December 1973 , P« 130,
20J No L 8¿} '¿1 March 1974» p. 10.
 ---pagebreak--- suspension for jute (and other textile "bast fibres falling within
heading No 57*03 ), they will result in measures identical to those
taken for India.    It is therefore proposed to extend until
31 December 1574 the validity of the measures already in force until
30 June 1974 for Eaagladash. in this sector.
The attached proposal for a regulation concerns the two measures
described in points Z and 3 above .
 ---pagebreak---                                  Proposal for a
                  EMULATION (EEC) No       /74 OP TEE COUNCIL
                  of                                                        .
amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3509/73 on the opening of tariff
preferences in  the form of a partial suspension of customs duties for products
made from jute  and ooir originating in India and products made from jute
originating in  Bangladesh, in respect of the description of the products
and its period  of application
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , •     '
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Eoonomio Conmiunity, and
in particular Ariiole 113 thereof }
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 3509/73^ of 18 December 1973> "the Counoil
opened tariff preferences in the form of partial suspension of customs duties
for products mads from jute end coir originating in India and products made
from jute originating in Bangladesh;
Whereas as a result of the entry into force of the agreement between the
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Community and India covering inter alia, manufactured jute products , the
above Regulation (EEG) No 3509/73 should be amended so that tariff
preferences include not only yarn and fabrics of jute proper, but also yarn
and fabrics of other textile bast fibres of heading No 57«03j
Whereas, moreover, for these same jute products , an agreement will shortly
be conoluded bstween the Community and Bangladesh j whereas the preferential
arrangements introduced in the above Regulation ..(EEC) No 3509/73 for Bangladesh
should therefore be extended until 31 December 1974;               '          '
                                                                        ./.
10J No L 358, 28 December 1973? p. 130
20J No Lñ2,¿7 March ; 1974, p. 10.
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTSD THIS REGULATION :
                                  Article 1
1.     In the table set out in Artiole 1(1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC)
       No 3509/73 of 18 December 1?73> the entries :
       ex 57*06         Jute yarn
       ex 57 . 10       Woven fabrics of jute t
          62.03         Sacks and bags , of a kind used for th9 packing of
                        goods :
                        ex A, Of jute
       are replaoed respectively by :
       57«06            Yam of jute or of other textile bast fibres
                        falling within heading No 57*03
       57.10            Woven fabrics of jute or of other textile bast
                        fibres falling within heading Ho 57*03 »
       62.03            Sacks and bags of a kind used for packing of goods :
                        A. Of jute or of other textile bast fibres falling
                        within heading No 57*03
2.     The dase 30 June 1974* appearing in paragraph 3 of the saxne Article^
       shall be replaoed by the date 31 December 1974 *
                                 Ar';î.cle 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974*
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States ,
Done at Brussels .       19–.                        For the Council
                                                     The President