CELEX: 31974R2485
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2485/74 of the Commission of 1 October 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), falling within heading No 82.09, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

2. 10 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 265/ 9
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2485/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 1 October 1974
                 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades,
                 serrated or not (including pruning knives), falling within heading No 82.09, origi­
                 nating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                           Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades,
COMMUNITIES,                                                       serrated or not (including pruning knives), falling
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              within heading No 82.09 , the ceiling, calculated as
                                                                   indicated above , should be 2 112 000 units of account,
Economic Community ;                                               and therefore the maximum amount 633 600 units of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       account ; whereas on 25 September 1974, the amounts
350 1 /73 ( 1 ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­           of imports into the Community of knives with cutting
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating          blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives),
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)           falling within heading No 82.09, 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 customs duties may, for each cate­               bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                   No 3501 /73 , which provides that maximum amounts
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be              should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the                 re-established in respect of the products in question
value of the products in question imported cif into                in relation to South Korea ,
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
including products coming from countries and territo­
                                                                                              Article 1
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­
gements established by the Community, and 5% of                    As from 5 October 1974, the levying of customs
the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
tries and from countries and territories already covered           ( EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be
by such arrangements ;                                              re-established in respett of the following products,
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                 imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                    South Korea :
 for products originating in any one of the countries or
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­                              CCT
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                    heading                    Description of goods
                                                                           No
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to               82.09             Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not
 that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this                                  (including pruning knives), other than
 reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                    knives falling within heading No 82.06
 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                        Article 2
 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                    following its publication in the Official Journal of
 has been reached ;                                                  the European Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels , 1 October 1974 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                              Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
  (') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 15 .