31973R1599

16 . 6 . 73 No L 159 /31 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1599/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on spoons, forks , fish-eaters, butter-knives , ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel, falling within heading No 82.14 A , originating in Hong Kong , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, COMMUNITIES , butter-knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel, the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above, should be 984 000 units of account, and there­ Economic Community ; fore the maximum amount 295 000 units of account ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No whereas on 31 May 1973 the amounts of imports into 2762/72 (') of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ the Community of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter­ ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware, of in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) stainless steel, originating in Hong Kong, a country thereof ; covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which may, for each category of products, be suspended up provides that maximum amounts should not be to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should be account, which will usually be equal to the sum re-established in respect of the products in question arrived at by adding together the value of the products in relation to Hong Kong ; in question imported cif into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries and territories covered by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered Article 1 by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif As from 19 June 1973, Common Customs Tariff imports coming from other countries and from coun­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be ments ; re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description of goods be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 82.14 Spoons, forks , fish-eaters , butter-knives, be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware : that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this A. Of stainless steel reduced percentage will be 30 % ; Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be Article 2 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day countries or territories once the relevant Community following its publication in the Official Journal of maximum amount has been reached ; 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. 15 .