Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2505/91 of 20 August 1991 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on the products falling within CN code 2817 00 00, originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 apply

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2505/91  of 20 August 1991  re-establishing the levying of customs duties on the products falling within CN code 2817 00 00, originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation  (EEC) No 3831/90 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 of 20 December 1990 applying generalized tariff preferenres for 1991 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries (1), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3835/90 (2),  and in particular Article 9 thereof,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90, customs duties on certain products originating in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III are totally suspended, and the products as such are, as a general rule, subject to  statistical surveillance every three months on the reference base referred to in Article 8;
Whereas, as provided for in Article 8 of that Regulation, where the increase of preferential imports of these products, originating in one or more beneficiary countries, threatens to cause economic difficulties in a region of the Community, the levying  of customs duties may be reintroduced, once the Commission has had an appropriate exchange of information with the Member States; whereas for this purpose the reference base to be considered is equal, as a general rule, to 6,3 % of the total  importations into the Community, originating from third countries in 1988;
Whereas, in the case of the products falling within CN code 2817 00 00, originating in China, the reference base is fixed at ECU 636 000; whereas that reference base was reached on 14 March 1991 by charges of imports into the Community of the products  in question originating in China; whereas the exchange of information organized by the Commission has demonstrated that continuance of the preference threatens to cause economic difficulties in a region of the Community; whereas, therefore, customs  duties for the products in question must be reintroduced with regard to China,