31973R1598

No L 159/30 16 . 6 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1598/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on flax or ramie yarn, not put up for retail sale, falling within heading No 54.03 , originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­ lation ( EEC) No 2766/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 1973 the amounts of imports into the Community of COMMUNITIES, the products in question, originating in countries covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives Economic Community ; of Regulation (EEC) No 2766/72, which provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, Common Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Customs Tariff duties should be re-established in 2766/72 (^ of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ respect of the products in question ; ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products and footwear originating in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that Article 1 the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for the products falling within Chapter 64 which are specified As from 19 June 1973, Common Customs Tariff in that paragraph, be suspended up to a Community duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be (EEC) No 2766/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the re-established in respect of the following products, value of the products in question imported cif into imported into the Community : the Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not CCT including products coming from countries already heading Description of goods No covered by various preferential tariff arrangements es­ tablished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from other countries and 54.03 Flax or ramie yarn, not put up for retail from countries already covered by such arrangements ; sale whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that Common Customs Tariff duties may be re-established at any time once the Community ceiling has been reached ; Article 2

Whereas, in respect of flax or ramie yarn, not put up This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day for retail sale, the ceiling, calculated as indicated following its publication in the Official Journal of above, should be 140 metric tons whereas on 31 May 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 . 82.