31973R1596

No L 159/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 16 . 6 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1596/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on embroidery, in strips or in motifs falling within heading No 58.10, originating in Pakistan, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2764/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN cated above, should be 56·25 metric tons, and there­ COMMUNITIES, fore the maximum amount 28·125 metric tons ; whereas on 31 May 1973 the amounts of imports Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ into the Community of embroidery, in the piece, in pean Economic Community ; strips, or in motifs, originating in Pakistan, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing 2764/72 ( x ) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ in mind the objectives of Regulation {EEC) No ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products 2764/72 , which provides that maximum amounts originating in developing countries, and in parti­ should not be exceeded, Common Customs Tariff cular Article 4 (2) thereof ; duties should be re-established in respect of the Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation products in question in relation to Pakistan ; provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for each category of products, be suspended HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : up >to a Community ceiling equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question, in metric tons, imported1 into the Commu­ Article 1 nity in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not 'including from 19 June 1973 , Common Customs Tariff products coming from countries already covered by duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­ various preferential tariff arrangements established tion (EEC ) No 2764/72 of 19 December 1972, shall by <the Community, and 5 % of the 1970 metric be re-established in respect of the following pro­ tonnage of such imports coming from other coun­ ducts, imported into the Community and originating tries and from countries already covered by such in Pakistan ; arrangements ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any CCT one of the countries listed in Annex B to that Regu­ heading Description of goods No lation should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 °/o of that ceiling ; whereas 58.10 Embroidery, in the piece, in strips or Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that in motifs Common Customs Tariff duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the Article 2 said countries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third Whereas, in respect of embroidery, in the piece, in day following its publication in the Official Journal strips or in motifs, the ceiling, calculated as indi of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 14 June 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

H OJ No L 296, 30. 12 . 1972, p . 69 .