CELEX: 41974D0597
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting in Council of 2 December 1974 opening tariff preferences for certain steel products originating in developing countries

No L 329 / 160                       Official Journal of the European Communities                               9 . 12 . 74
                                                        DECISION
                  OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER
              STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING IN
                                                        COUNCIL
                                                   of 2 December 1974
              opening tariff preferences for certain steel products originating in developing countries
                                                      (74/597/ECSC)
 THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS                         Imports already enjoying exemption from customs
 OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                 duties under such arrangements shall not be charged
 COAL AND       STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING IN
 COUNCIL ,                                                      against the aforementioned ceiling.
                                                                4. Subject to Article 2, within each ceiling thus
 In agreement with the Commission,                              calculated, charges of products originating in any
                                                                one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B
                                                                should not exceed a maximum amount equivalent to
 HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                50% of this ceiling, except for the specific cases
                                                                indicated in Annex A.
                        Article 1                               5 . Any amendment to Annex B, in particular by
                                                                the addition of new countries or territories enjoying
 1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1975 the duties              tariff preferences, may entail a corresponding
applicable in the Community to the imports of the               adjustment to the ceilings and maximum amounts
products listed in Annex A shall be completely                  referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4.
 suspended, subject to the provisions of Article 2.
                                                                                         Article 2
2. This suspension shall be enjoyed solely by
products originating in the countries and territories           1 . As soon as the ceilings calculated in accordance
listed in Annex B. For the purposes of the application          with the provisions of Article 1 (3 ) which are laid
of this Decision the concept of originating products            down for Community imports of products originating
shall be determined in accordance with the procedure            in all of the countries and territories referred to in
laid down in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC )            Article 1 (2) are reached at Community level , the
No 802/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 of the common                     Member States may at any time, at the request of
definition of the concept of the origin of goods .              any one of them or of the Commission and in respect
                                                                of the whole of the Community, re-introduce the
                                                                levying of the corresponding duties on imports of
3 . Subject to Article 2, this suspension shall be              the products in question from ail the countries and
granted within a ceiling which shall be equal to the            territories concerned until the end of the period
amount obtained, in respect of each category of                 referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ).
products, by adding together, in units of account, the
value for 1971 of cif imports of the products con­              2. As soon as the maximum amounts calculated in
cerned to the Community from the countries and                  accordance with the provisions of Article 1 (4 ) which
territories enjoying these arrangements, excluding              are laid down for the Community imports of prod­
those already enjoying various preferential tariff              ucts originating in each of the countries and territories
arrangements granted by the nine Member States of               referred to in Article 1 (2) and (3 ) are reached for
the Community, and 5% of the value of cif imports               any one of these countries or territories at Commu­
in 1972 from other countries and from the countries             nity level, the Member States may at any time, at
and territories already enjoying such arrangements .           the request of any of them and in respect of the
                                                               whole of the Community, re-introduce the levying of
                                                                the corresponding duties on imports of the products
                                                                in question from the country or territory concerned
(J) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 1 .                            until the end of the period referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ).
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                        Article 3                                                    Article 4
                                                              Member States, in close cooperation with the Com­
1 . Imports of the said goods shall be actually               mission, shall take all necessary measures to ensure
charged against the ceilings and maximum amounts              that the above provisions are applied.
as and when they are entered for home use, on the
basis of the customs value of the said goods, and are                                Article 5
accompanied by a certificate of origin in accordance
with the rules referred to in Article 1 (2).                  Member States shall inform the Commission             at
                                                              regular intervals of imports of the products in
                                                              question actually charged against the ceilings and
                                                              maximum amounts laid down in Article 1 (3 )
2. Goods may be charged against a ceiling or maxi­            and (4).
mum amount only if the certificate of origin
mentioned in paragraph 1 is presented before the                                     Article 6
date on which the levying of duties is re-introduced.         The Member States shall take all measures necessary
                                                              for the implementation of this Decision .
3 . The extent to which ceilings and maximum                  Done at Brussels, 2 December 1974.
amounts have been used up shall be recorded at
Community level on the basis of imports charged                                                  The President
in the manner laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 .                                             J. SAUVAGNARGUES
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                                                                  ANNEX A
           List of products in respect of which the Common Customs Tariff duties are completely suspended
                    under the generalized tariff preferences granted to developing countries and territories
                   CCT
                 heading                                                 Description
                    No
                 73.07             Blooms, billets , slabs and sheet bars (including tinplate bars) of iron or steel ;
                                   pieces roughly shaped by forging, of iron or steel :
                                   A. Blooms and billets :
                                        I. Rolled
                                   B. Slabs and sheet bars (including tinplate bars) :
                                        I. Rolled
                 73.09             Universal plates of iron or steel
                 73.11 n           Angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged , extruded, cold­
                                   formed, or cold-finished ; sheet piling of iron or steel whether or not drilled,
                                   punched or made from assembled elements :
                                   A. Angles, shapes and sections :
                                           I. Not further worked than hot-rolled extruded
                                         TV. Clad or surface-worked (for example, polished , coated) :
                                              a) Not further worked than clad :
                                                  1.  Hot-rolled or extruded
                                   B. Sheet pilling
                 73.12             Hoop and strip , of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled :
                                   A. Not further worked than hot-rolled
                                   B. Not further worked than cold-rolled :
                                           I. In coils for the manufacture of tinplate
                                   C. Clad , coated or otherwise surface-treated :
                                       III .  Tinned :
                                              a) Tinplate
                                          V. Other (for example, copper-plated, artificially oxidized ; lacquered
                                              nickel-plated, varnished, clad, parkerized, printed) :
                                              a ) Not further worked than clad :
                                                  1 . Hot-rolled
           (v ) For the products covered by heading No 73.11 and with respect to Yugoslavia, the maximum amount referred to in
                Article 1 (4) has been lowered to 529 800 u.a .
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            CCT
           heading                                           Description
             No
           73.15   Alloy steel and high carbon steel in the forms mentioned in heading Nos 73.06
                   to 73.14 :
                   A. High carbon steel :
                          I. Ingots, blooms, billets, slabs and sheet bars :
                               b) Other :
                                   2 . Blooms , billets , slabs and sheet bars
                       III . Coils for re-rolling
                       IV. Universal plates
                         V. Bars and rods (including wire rod) and hollow mining dril ' steel ; angles
                               shapes and sections :
                               b ) Not further worked than hot-rolled or extruded
                               d) Clad or surface-worked (for example, polished, coated):
                                   1 . Not further worked than clad :
                                        aa) Hot-rolled or extruded
                       VI. Hoop and strip :
                               a ) Not further worked than hot-rolled
                               c) Clad , coated or otherwise surface-treated :
                                   1.   Not further worked than clad :
                                        aa) Hot-rolled
                       VII. Sheets and plates :
                               a ) Not further worked than hot-rolled
                               b) Not further worked than cold-rolled , of a thickness oí :
                                   2 . Less than 3 mm
                               c) Polished , clad , coated or otherwise surface-treated
                               d ) Otherwise shaped or worked :
                                    1 . Cut into shapes other than rectangular shapes , but not further
                                        worked
                    B. Alloy steel :
                           1 . Ingots , blooms , billets , slabs and sheet bars :
                               b ) Other :
                                   2 . Blooms , billets , slabs and sheet bars
                        III. Coils for re-rolling
                        IV. Universal plates
                         V. Bars and rods (including wire rod ) and hollow mining drill steel ; angles ,
                               shapes and sections :
                                b) Not further worked than hot-rolled or extruded
                                d) Clad or surface-worked (for example, polished , coated):
                                    1 . Not further worked than clad :
                                        aa) Hot-rolled or extruded
                        VI . Hoop and strip :
                                a) Not further worked than hot-rolled
                               c) Clad , coated or otherwise surface-treated :
                                    1 . Not further worked than clad :
                                        aa) Hot-rolled
                       VII. Sheets and plates :
                                a) ' Electrical' sheets and plates
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                CCT
               heading                                       Description
                 No
               73.15             b) Other sheets and plates :
              (confà.)              1 . Not further worked than hot-rolled
                                    2. Not further worked than cold-rolled , of a thickness of :
                                        bb) Less than 3 mm
                                    3 . Polished , clad , coated or otherwise surface-treated
                                    4. Otherwise shaped or worked :
                                         aa) Cut into shapes other than rectangular shapes, but not
                                             further worked
              73.16    Railway and tramway track construction material of iron or steel , the following :
                       rails , check-rails, switch blades, crossing (or frogs), crossing pieces, point rods,
                       rack rails, sleepers, fish-plates, chairs, chair-wedges, sole plates (base plates),
                       rail clips, bedplates, ties, and other material specialized for joining or fixing
                       rails :
                       A. Rails :
                           II. Other
                       B. Check-rails
                       C. Sleepers
                       D. Fish-plates and sole plates :
                           II. Rolled
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                                                       ANNEX B
                   List of developing countries and territories enjoying generalized tariff preferences
                                             INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES
Afghanistan                               Honduras                                  Qatar
Algeria                                   India                                     Rwanda
Argentina                                 Indonesia                                 Saudi Arabia
Bahamas                                   Iran                                      Senegal
Bahrain                                   Iraq                                      Sierra Leone
Bangladesh                                Ivory Coast                               Singapore
Barbados                                  Jamaica                                   Somalia
Bhutan                                    Jordan                                    Sri Lanka
Bolivia                                   Kenya                                     Sudan
Botswana                                  Khmer Republic                            Swaziland
Brazil                                    Korea (South)                             Syria
Burma                                     Kuwait                                    Tanzania
Burundi                                   Laos                                      Thailand
Cameroon                                  Lebanon
                                                                                    Togo
Central African Republic                  Lesotho
                                                                                    Tonga
Chad                                      Liberia
                                                                                    Trinidad and Tobago
Chile                                     Libya                                     Tunisia
Colombia                                  Malagasy Republic                         Uganda
Congo, People's Republic of               Malawi                                    United Arab Emirates :
Costa Rica                                Malaysia                                       Abu Dhabi
Cuba                                      Maldive Islands                                Dubai
Cyprus                                    Mali
                                                                                         Ras al Khaimah
Dahomey                                   Mauritania
                                                                                         Fuj airah
Dominican Republic                        Mauritius
                                                                                         Ajman
Ecuador                                   Mexico
                                                                                         Sharjah
Egypt, Arab Republic of                   Morocco
                                                                                         Ummal Qaiwain
El Salvador                               Nauru
                                                                                    Upper Volta
Equatorial Guinea                         Nepal                                     Uruguay
Ethiopia                                  Nicaragua                                 Venezuela
Fiji                                      Niger                                     Vietnam , Republic of
Gabon                                     Nigeria                                   Western Samoa
Gambia                                   Oman
                                                                                    Yemen, People's Democratic
Ghana                                    Pakistan
                                                                                    Republic of
Guatemala                                Panama
                                                                                    Yemen Arab Republic
Guinea                                   Paraguay                                   Yugoslavia
Guyana                                   Peru
                                                                                    Zaire
Haiti                                    Philippines                                Zambia
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                                                     COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES
            dependent or administered, or for whose external relations Member States of the Community
                                         or third countries are wholly or partly responsible
            Afars and Issas (Territory of the)
            Angola (including Cabinda)
            Australian Antarctic Territory
            Belize
            Bermuda
            British Antarctic Territory
            British Indian Ocean Territory (Aldabra, Farquhar, Chagos Archipelago, Des Roches)
            British Pacific Ocean (x)
            Brunei
             Cape Verde Islands
            Cayman Islands and Dependencies
             Christmas Island
             Cocos (Keeling) Islands
             Comoro Archipelago
             Corn Islands and Swan Islands
            Falkland Islands and Dependencies
            French Polynesia
            French Southern and Antarctic Territories
             Gibraltar
             Heard Island and MacDonald Islands
             Hong Kong
             Leeward Islands (2)
             Macao
             Mozambique
             Netherlands Antilles
             New Caledonia and Dependencies
             Norfolk Islands
             Pacific Islands administered by the United States of America or under United States trusteeship (3)
             Papua-New Guinea
             Portuguese Guinea
             Portuguese Timor
             St Helena (including Ascension, Gough Island, and Tristan da Cunha)
             Saint Pierre and Miquelon
             Sao Tome and Principe
             Seychelles (including Amirantes)
             Sikkim
             Spanish territories in Africa
             Surinam
             Territories for which New Zealand is responsible (Cook Islands, Niuwe Island, Tokelau Islands
                   and Ross Dependency)
             Turks and Caocos Islands
             Virgin Islands of the United States (St Croix, St Thomas, St John, etc.)
             Wallis and Futuna Islands
             Windward Islands (4)
             Note : The above lists may be amended subsequently to take account of changes in the inter­
                         national status of countries or territories .
             i1 ) Gilbert and Ellice Islands , British Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Condominium, and Pitcairn Islands .
             (2) Antigua , Montserrat, St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, British Virgin Islands .
             (3) The Pacific Islands administered by the United States of .America include :" Guam , American Samoa (including Swain 's
                  Island), Midway Islands, Johnston and Sand Islands , Wake Island and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (the
                  Caroline, Marianas and Marshall Islands).
              (4) Dominica , Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent .