CELEX: 31977R0616
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 616/77 of 23 March 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc. and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 77/ 24                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                  25 . 3 . 77
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 616/77
                                                      of 23 March 1977
                  re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters,
                  etc. and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel , falling within
                  subheading 82.14 A, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff
                       arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
  COMMUNITIES,                                                    ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
                                                                  of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
                                                                  nity amount has been reached ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas, in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc .
                                                                  and similar kitchen or tableware , of stainless steel ,
  Having * regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                 falling within subheading 82.14 A, the ceiling, calcu­
  3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             lated as indicated above, should be 4 437 000 units of
  tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     account, and therefore the maximum amount is
  developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2)     665 550 units of account ; whereas on 16 March 1977,
  thereof,                                                        the amounts of imports into the Community of
                                                                 spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc . and similar kitchen or
  Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               tableware, of stainless steel , falling within subheading
  provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            82.14 A, originating in Hong Kong a country covered
  gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
  ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
  equal — with the exception of certain products the             objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 which
  value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of          provides that maximum amounts should not be
  the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
  adding together the value of the products in question          respect of the products in question in relation to
  imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                     Hong Kong,
  coming from countries and territories covered by
  those arrangements, but not including products
 coming from countries and territories already covered
 by various preferential tariff arrangements established         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                                     Article 1
 ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of
 this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that
 resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for            As from 28 March 1977, the levying of customs
 the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of          duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of           (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
 the addition ;                                                  of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                                 nity and originating in Hong Kong :
 Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                    C CT
 for products originating in any one of the countries or               heading                  Description of goods
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                 No
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of             82.14             Spoons , forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives,
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               ladles , and similar kitchen or tableware :
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              A. Of stainless steel
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
 reduced percentage will be 15% ;
                                                                                            Article 2
 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 .                         the European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 23 March 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission