CELEX: 31973R1599
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1599/73 of the Commission of 14 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel, falling within heading No 82.14 A, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

16 . 6 . 73                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 159 /31
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1599/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 14 June 1973
                 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on spoons, forks , fish-eaters,
                butter-knives , ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel, falling
                within heading No 82.14 A, originating in Hong Kong , to which the preferential
                 tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19
                                                  December 1972 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters,
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  butter-knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          of stainless steel, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
 Economic Community ;                                          above, should be 984 000 units of account, and there­
                                                               fore the maximum amount 295 000 units of account ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  whereas on 31 May 1973 the amounts of imports into
 2762/72 (') of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­          the Community of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter­
 ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating     knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware, of
 in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)      stainless steel, originating in Hong Kong, a country
 thereof ;                                                     covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation              that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
 provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which
 may, for each category of products, be suspended up           provides that maximum amounts should not be
 to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                 exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should be
 account, which will usually be equal to the sum               re-established in respect of the products in question
 arrived at by adding together the value of the products       in relation to Hong Kong ;
 in question imported cif into the Community in 1968
 and coming from countries and territories covered by          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 those arrangements, but not including products
 coming from countries and territories already covered                                    Article 1
 by various preferential tariff arrangements established
 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif            As from 19 June 1973, Common Customs Tariff
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­            duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­        (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be
 ments ;                                                       re-established in respect of the following products,
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts            imported into the Community and originating in :
 for products originating in any one of the countries or
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should             CCT
                                                                   heading                   Description of goods
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­                          No
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to           82.14              Spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives,
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware :
 that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this                              A. Of stainless steel
 reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                                   Article 2
 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
countries or territories once the relevant Community           following its publication in the Official Journal of
maximum amount has been reached ;                              the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 14 June 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                         François-Xavier ORTOLI
(>) OJ No L 296, 30 . 12. 1972, p. 15 .