CELEX: 51980PC0481
Language: en
Date: 1980-07-24
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                         COM(80)481 final
                                         Brussels . 24 July 1980
                     Proposal for a
               COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
    amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 950 / 68 on the Common
                     Customs Tariff
 ---pagebreak---                                  BXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . By Regulations ( EEC ) No 387 / 80 and 388 / 80 of 15 February 1980 ( 1 ) the
     Community applied safeguard measures against certain textile products
      imported into the United Kingdom .
2 . Considering themselves injured by these measures the United States of
     America asked to enter into consultation with the Community under article
     XIX of GATT and claimed compensation for the damage caused to their
     exports . The Community rejected this claim but was willing , in order to
     avoid the dangers for international trade relations which would follow a
     confrontation on this issue , to . envisage some kind of gesture in the
     tari f f field .     .
3 . The consultations have now led to a solution satisfactory to both sides .
4 . The tariff changes proposed consist of an accelerated introduction of
     duties arising from the Tokyo Round , duties which would only be
     implemented on 1 January 1981 . Among the 6 cases involved , two
     ( No . 38.07 C and No . 39.03 B V a ) 1 ) are at present the subject of
     autonomous suspensions of duties at the level of 3 % and 4 % respectively
5 . The Article 113 Committee has given a favourable opinion in its sitting
     on 16.7.1980 as regardsjthe principle of the measures proposed by this
     regulation .                                                             ^
( 1 ) O.J. L 45 , 20 February 1980, page 5 ^
 ---pagebreak---                                        Proposai
                    for a Council Regulation ( EEC )
                           I                         •    -
                       amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 950 / 68
                  *        /
                          on the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 113 thereof , '              v     •  •
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas , following safeguard measures taken by the Community in .the synthetic
fibre sector , consultations under GATT have taken place with the United
States of America ;
Whereas these consultations have led to a mutually satisfactory solution
consisting , for the Community , of the accelerated introduction , for certain
products , of concessions resulting from the 1979 Geneva Protocol annexed to
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                            ' .
                                    Article 1   ,
The conventional rates of duty of the Common Customs Tariff relating to
products listed in the Annex hereto shall be       as shown in the said Annex .
                                    Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 1980
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at Brussels .                                  "  '
                                                      For the Counci I
                                                       The President
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 ---pagebreak---                                      Annex
                                       <
                                                               Convent ional
Heading
number
                                  Description                 rates of duty
                                                                    %
35.04      Peptones and other protein substances ( excluding
           enzymes of heading No 35.07 ) and their derivati-
           ves ; hide powder , whether or not chromed              7' 3
38.07'     Spirits of turpentine ( gum , wood and sulphate )
           and other terpenic solvents produced by the
           distillation or other treatment of coniferous                    /
           woods ; crude dipentene ; sulphite turpentine ;
           pine oil ( excluding " pine oils " not rich in
           terpineol ) :
           C. Other                                                4,5
39.03      Regenerated cellulose ; cellulose nitrate ,
           cellulose acetate and other cellulose esters ,
           cellulose ethers and other chemical derivatives
           of cellulose , plasticised or not ( for example ,
           collodions , celluloid ); vulcanised fibre :
           B. Other    :
               III . Cellulose acetates     :
                     a ) Not plasticised                          13,4    -
                     b ) Plasticised
                         2 . Film in rolls or in strips , for
                              cinematography or photography        9/ 4
                IV . Other cellulose esters :
                     b ) Plasticised :
                         1 . Products known as moulding
                             powders                               8,7
                 V. Cellulose ethers and other chemical
                     derivatives of cellulose :
                     a ) Not plasticised :
                         1 . Ethylcellulose                       10,7
     1 ■ ■
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