CELEX: 51974PC0718
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-21
Title: PROPOSAL For a Regulation (EEC) of the Council amending Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                         COM(74)718 final
                                                         Brussels , 21 May 1974
                                   PROPOSAL
                                     For a
                      Regulation ( EEC ) of +he Council
                 emending Regulation ( ESC ) No 950/68 on the
                             Common Customs Tariff
                 ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission )
    COM( 74 ) 718 final
 ---pagebreak---                           Explanatory Memorandum
                 On the basis of a Council Decision of 21 June 1971 , the
Community implemented the principal amendments to the Brussels Nomen­
clature contained in the Recommendation of the Customs Cooperation
Council of 9 June 1970 , by incorporating them into the Common Customs
Tariff with effect from 1 January 1972 .
                 As regards heading No . 85.21 in particular , one of the
effects of the amendments made to the nomenclature of the subheadings
was to classify semi-conductor devices in the form of wafers in sub­
heading 85.21 D , with a consolidated duty of 17
                 The USA felt that this amendment was to their disadvantage ,
arguing that before 1 January 1972 , when the amended nomenclature was
put into effect , most of their exports were subject to a customs duty of
9.6 % ( which as a result of the Kennedy negotiations was reduced to 9 %
from 1 January 1972 ).
                 They therefore requested a return to the situation existing
at 31 December 1971 .
                 After a thorough study of this problem by the Special
Committee set up under Article 113 , it was found that the interpretation
of the nomenclature in force until 31 December 1971 had led to different
classifications in different Member States and that , in effect , the
majority of USA exports to the Community had enjoyed a duty of 9*6 % and
only a small part had been subject to the duty of 17
                 On this basis , the Special Committee , at its meeting of
21 December 1973 , declared itself in favour of the American request being
granted and the rate of 9 % being re-established for certain articles
falling within No . 85.21 ( wafers ).
                 The purpose of this Regulation is to make the necessary
amendments to the CCT .
                 The budgetary effect can be estimated, at a reduction in
receipts in a full year of approximately 650 000 - 70O OOO dollars .
  OJ No . L 137 , p. 10 and 11 .
 ---pagebreak---                               Proposal for
                   a Regulation ( SEC ) of the Council
               amending Regulation (EEC ) No 950/68 on the
                          Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COhKUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community , and in particular Article 113 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 950/68^" of 28 June 1968 on the
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Common Customs Tariff , as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No
lists , in subheading 85.21 D , diodes , transistors and similar semi­
conductor devices and electronic microcircuits ; whereas these articles
are subject to a conventional duty of 17 % \
Whereas for commercial policy reasons the conventional duty applied
to articles in subheading 85.21 D in the form of wafers not yet cut
into chips should be reduced ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
                          _ -     Article 1
The Annex headed "Common Customs Tariff" to Regulation (EEC ) No 950/68
is- -amended to read as shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
                                  Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 197 ^.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly appli­
cable in all Member States .
  /
Done at Brussels ,                                      For the Council
                                                        The President
X0J No L 172 , 22 July 1968
2
 ---pagebreak---                                                              ANNEX
Heading
                                                   Rate of duty     I
  No .                      Do eor5.pt ion     Autonomous   conven­
                                                            tional
                                                          \
  85.21    ( unchanged )
           A. to C. ( unchanged )
           D. Diodes , transistors and similar
               semi-conductor devices ; elec-
            '  tronic micro-circuits :
                I. Wafers not yet cut xnto
                    chips                          21           9
               II . Other                      /   21         17
        I
         i E. ( unchanged )