CELEX: 31978R0051
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 51/78 of 10 January 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods falling within heading No 61.10, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

No L 9/ 16                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                     12. 1 . 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 51 /78
                                                 of 10 January 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­
               ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods falling within
               heading No 61.10 , originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff
                      arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­
COMMUNITIES,                                                  ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         crocheted goods, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                              above, should be 21 tonnes, and therefore the
Economic Community,
                                                               maximum amount is 10.5 tonnes ; whereas on 9
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  January 1978 the amounts of imports into the
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating                Community of gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks
and providing for the administration of Community             and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods,
tariff preferences for textile products originating in        originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by
developing countries and territories (*), and in parti­        preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
cular Article 4 thereof,                                       maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation            objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 which
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         provides that maximum amounts should not be
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be              exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %              respect of the products in question in relation to
of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of          Hong Kong,
the products in question, in tonnes, imported into the
Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in Annex D thereto, but not including products
coming from countries already covered by various pref­                                     Article 1
erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­
nity, and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports              As from 15 January 1978 , the levying of customs
coming from other countries and from countries
                                                               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
                                                               (EEC) No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,
                                                               of the following products, imported into the Commu­
having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for
                                                               nity and originating in Hong Kong :
products originating in any one of the countries listed
in Annex D should be within a maximum Commu­
nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with                  CCT
                                                                    heading                         Description
the exception of certain products for which the                       No
maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage
indicated in Annex C to the abovementioned Regula­             61.10               Gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and
tion ;                                                                             sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that                             goods
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                   Article 2
 tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­
 tories, with exception of countries listed in Annex E         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 thereto, once the relevant Community maximum                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
 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, 10 January 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 67.