CELEX: 31973R2590
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2590/73 of the Commission of 24 September 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 South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

25 . 9 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 268 / 13
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 2590/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 24 September 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 South Korea 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 295 200 units of account ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         whereas on 20 September 1973 the amounts of
2762/72 (')        '9 December 1972 establishing prefer­             imports into the Community of spoons, forks, fish­
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating            eaters, butter-knives, ladles , and similar kitchen or
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)             tableware, of stainless steel , originating in South
thereof ;
                                                                     Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                     ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                       bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
may, for each category of products, be suspended up                  No 2762/72, which provides, that maximum amounts
to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                        should not be exceeded , Common Customs Tariff
account, which will usually be equal to the sum                      duties should be re-established in respect of the
arrived at by adding together the value of the products              products in question in relation to South Korea ;
in question imported cif into the Community in 1968
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products                                                   Article 1
coming from countries and territories already covered                As from 28 September 1973, Common Customs Tariff
by various preferential tariff arrangements established              duties suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif                   (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                   re-established in respect - of the following products,
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­               imported into the Community and originating in
ments ;                                                              South Korea :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
 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, 24 September 1 973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                               Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (') OJ No T. 29<S , M ). 12 . 14-2 , p . I S