31973R1597

16 . 6 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 159/29

REGULATION (EEC) No 1597/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor rubberized, of cotton, falling within heading No 60.04 A, origina­ ting in South Korea, 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 the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be COMMUNITIES, 180 metric tons , and therefore the maximum amount 54 metric tons ; whereas an 31 May 1973 Having regard' to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ the amounts of imports into the Community of pean Economic Community ; under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No nor rubberized, of cotton, originating in South 2764/72 ( 1 ) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­ ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, originating in developing countries, and .in parti­ bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) cular Annette 4 (2 ) thereof ; No 2764/72, . which provides that maximum Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation amounts should not be exceeded, Common Customs Tariff 'duties should be re-established in provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for each category of products, be suspended respect of the products in question in relation to up to a Community ceiling equal to the sum arrived South Korea ; at by addling together the value of the products in question, in metric tons, imported into the Commu­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : nity in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not .including products coming from countries already covered by Article 1 various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 19 June 1973 , Common Customs Tariff by the Community, and' 5 % of the 1970 metric duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­ tonnage of such import's coming from other coun­ tion ( EEC ) No 2764/72 of 19 December 1972, shall tries and from countries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard to that be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any South Korea : one of the countries listed in Annex B to that Regu­ lation should be within a maximum Community CCT amount representing 50 % of that ceiling with the heading Description of goods exception of certain products for which the No maximum amount is to be reduced to the percent­ age indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; 60.04 Under garments, knitted or crocheted, whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage not elastic nor rubberized : will be 30 °/o ; whereas Article 2 (2 ) of that Regula­ A. Of cotton tion provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating Article 2 in any of the said countries, once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third Whereas, in respect of under garments, knitted or day following its publication in the Official Journal chrocheted, not elastic nor rubberized, of cotton, 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

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