31973R1048

19 . 4 . 73 No L 104/31 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1048/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 18 April 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on women's, girl's and infants' outer garments, of cotton , falling within heading No ex 61.02, originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2764/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN on 10 April 1973 the amounts of imports into the COMMUNITIES, Community of women's, girl's and infants' outer garments, of cotton, originating in India, a country Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Economic Community ; that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2764/72, which 2764/72 (J ) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ provides that maximum amounts should not be ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should be nating in developing countries, and in particular re-established in respect of the products in question Article 4 (2) thereof ; in relation to India ; Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to three quarters of the Article 1 sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question, in metric tons, imported into As from 22 April 1973, Common Customs Tariff the Community in 1968 and coming from countries duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation listed in Annex B to that Regulation , but not (EEC) No 2764/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be including products coming from countries already re-established in respect of the following products, covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ imported into the Community and originating in blished by the Community and 5 % of the 1970 India : metric tonnage of such imports coming from other countries and from countries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling, CCT the amounts for products originating in any one of heading Description of goods the countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation No should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling whereas Article 2 (2) ex 61.02 Women's, girl's and infants' outer gar­ of that Regulation provides that Common Customs ments Tariff duties may be re-established at any time in — of cotton respect of imports of the products in question origi­ nating in any of the said countries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of women's, girl's and infants' outer garments, of cotton, the ceiling, calculated as This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day indicated above, should be 90 metric tons, and there­ following its publication in the Official Journal of fore the maximum amount 45 metric tons : whereas the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 18 April 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

(!) OJ No L 296, 30 . 12. 1972, p . 69 .