CELEX: 51976PC0521
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-22
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of tropical products (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                            COM(76)521 Final
                                                            Brussels , 22nd October 1976
                                   Proposal for a
                               Council Regulation ( EEC )
                                                          ν
               temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs
                  Tariff duties on a number of tropical products
                                                                            χ
                     ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM ( 76 ) 521 Final
 ---pagebreak---                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
In its Decision of 5 April 1976 , Che Council approved a Community
tariff reduction , within the framework of the uiulci lateral GA.TT tra<ie
negotiations , for the following tropical products :
CCT No                 Description of goods        Current     CCT rate
                                                   CCT rate    as froa
                                                               1.1.1977
08.01            Dates , bananas , coconuts ,
                 Brazil nuts , cashewnuts ,
                 pineapples , avocados , mangoes ,
                 guavas and mangos teens , fresh
                 or dried , shelled or not :
                 F. Cashew nuts    (1)               2.5
09.01            Coffee , whether or not roasted
                 or freed of caffeine ; coffee
                 husks and skins ; coffee
                 substitutes containing coffee
                  in any proportion :
                 A. Coffee :
                     I. unroasted :
                        a ) Not freed of
                            caffeine
 18.01           Cocoa beans , whole or broken,
                 raw or roasted                      5.4(2)
18.02            Cocoa shells , husks , skins
                 and waste                           5.4
(i)    The autonomous Common Customs Tariff duty on shelled cashew nuts
       is already suspended from 1 July 1976 to 30 June 1977 (sea
      Council Regulation (EEC ) No 1450/76 - OJ No L 163 /76 , p. 1 ).
(2)   Currently suspended at 4% for an inde.fio5. te period .
 ---pagebreak--- The annexed proposal for a regulation is aimed at implementing this
Decision .                                             •
Pending the results of the Tokyo Round tariff negotiations , the
Commission considers it advisable to reduce , for the products in
question, the Common Customs Tariff duties in the form of temporary
tariff suspension as from 1 January 1977 to 31 December 1977 .
It is planned to include all the changes in the Common Customs
Tariff once the definite results of the negotiations are known .
 ---pagebreak---                              Proposal for e
                        Coaacil Regulation (EEC)
          temporarily suspending the autonomous Com-on Customs
              Tariff duties on a number of tropical products
TEF- COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community e
arid in particular Article 113 *
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas in its Decision of 5 April 1976 the Council approved a Community
reduction, within the framework of the multilateral GAIT negotiations , of
the Common Customs Tariff duties on certain tropical products, . on the
 understanding that this reduction would take effect from 1 January 19773
Whereas , since the full results of these negotiations for a definitive
alteration of the Common Customs Tariff will not be known before 3 !
December 1977 , this tariff reduction should he made "by             .     .
way of a temporary suspension of the autonomous Common Customs Tariff
duties on the products in question from 1 January to 31 December 1977 ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                 Article 1
From 1 January to 31 December 1977 , the autonomous Common Customs Tariff
duties for the products listed in the Table annexed to this Regulation
shall be suspended at the level indicated in respect of each of them .
                                 Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following ile
publication ia the Official Journal of the European Cosamunities .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety
          and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels .                                For the Council
                                                   The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                    ANNEX
CCT No      Description of goods         Rate of autonomous duty
 08.01 Dates , bananas , coconuts ,
       Brazil nuts , cashewnuts ,
       pineapples , avocados , mangoes ,
       guavas and ruangosteens , fresh
       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 proportion :
       A. Coffee :
          I. unroasted :
              a ) Not freed of
                  caffeine                             5
18.01  Cocoa beans , whole or broken,
       raw or roasted
18.02  Cocoa shells , husks , skins
       and waste