CELEX: 31974R1298
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1298/74 of the Commission of 22 May 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on men's and boys' under garments, including collars, shirt fronts and cuffs, falling within subheading No ex 61.03, originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

23 . 5 . 74                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 140/ 53
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1298 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 22 May 1974
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on men's and boys' under
               garments, including collars, shirt fronts and cuffs, falling within subheading No
               ex 61.03 , originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set
                   out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of men's and boys under
COMMUNITIES,                                                   garments, including collars, shirt fronts and cuffs, of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           cotton fabric, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                                above, should be 300 metric tons, and therefore the
Economic Community ;
                                                                maximum amount 90 metric tons ; whereas on 8 May
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    1974 the amounts of imports into the Community of
3503/73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­            men's and boys' under garments, including collars,
ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­    shirt fronts and cuffs, of cotton fabric, originating in
nating in developing countries, and in particular               India, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
Article 4 (2) thereof ;                                         ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
provides that customs duties may, for each category of          No 3503/73, which provides that maximum amounts
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling                should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
equal to 150 % of the sum arrived at by adding                  re-established in respect of the products in question
together the value of the products in question, in              in relation to India,
metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that
Regulation, but not including products coming from                                         Article 1 ■
countries already covered by various preferential tariff
arrangements established by the Community, and                  As from 26 May 1974, the levying of customs duties,
5% of the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports                   suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
coming from other countries and from countries                  No    3503 / 73    of   18    December          1973 ,  shall  be
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,                 re-established in respect of the following products,
having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for                  imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                India :
products originating in any one of the countries listed
in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a
maximum Community amount representing 50 % of                        CCT
                                                                    heading                     Description of goods
that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for              No
which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the
percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ;            ex 61.03          Men's and boys' under garments, including
whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage                              collars, shirt fronts and cuffs :
will be 30 % ;                                                                    — Of cotton fabric
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, 22 May 1974.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(>) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973, p. 69 .