CELEX: 31978R0346
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 346/78 of 20 February 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on umbrellas and sunshades falling within heading No 66.01, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 346/78
                                                  of 20 February 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on umbrellas and sunshades falling
               within heading No 66.01 , originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential
                  tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 countries or territories — with the exception of those
COMMUNITIES,                                                   listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
                                                               relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community.
                                                               Whereas, in respect of umbrellas and sunshades
                                                               falling within heading No 66.01 , the ceiling, calcu­
                                                               lated as indicated above , should be 9 027 000 units of
                                                               account, and therefore the maximum amount is
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   1 354 050 units of account ; whereas on 14 February
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     umbrellas and sunshades falling within heading No
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      66.01 , originating in Hong Kong, a country covered
thereof,
                                                               by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                               maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
                                                               objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               provides that maximum amounts should not be
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               respect of the products in question in relation to
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          Hong Kong,
equal — with the exception of certain products the
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by
adding together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif                                      Article 1
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from           As from 24 February 1978 , the levying of custom:
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;              (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
                                                               of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                                nity and originating in Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or               CCT
                                                                     heading                     Description
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
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to
                                                                66.01            Umbrellas and sunshades (including
                                                                                 walking-stick umbrellas, umbrella tents
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                            and garden and similar umbrellas)
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
 reduced percentage will be 15 % .
 Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                       Article 2
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be 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 da)
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal o>
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, 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, 20 February 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission