31973R1853

No L 188/ 12 11 . 7. 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1853/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 9 July 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor rubberized, of cotton, falling within subheading No 60.04 A, originating in developing countries 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 tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas, COMMUNITIES, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2764/72, which provides that the ceiling should Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European not be exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties Economic Community ; should be re-established in respect of the products in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No question ; 2764/72 (x) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : nating in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; Article 1 Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for each cate­ As from 14 July 1973, Common Customs Tariff gory of products, be suspended up to a Community duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ceiling equal to the sum arrived at by adding together (EEC) No 2764/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be the metric tonnage of the products in question, re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community in 1968 and coming imported into the Community : from countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not including products coming from countries already covered by various preferential tariff arrange­ CCT ments established by the Community, and 5 % of the heading Description of goods No 1970 metric tonnage of such imports coming from other countries and from countries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regu­ 60.04 Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor rubberized : lation provides that Common Customs Tariff duties A. Of cotton may be re-established at any time once the Commu­ nity ceiling has been reached ;

Whereas, in respect of under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor rubberized, of cotton, the Article 2 ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 180 metric tons ; whereas on 30 June 1973 the amounts of This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day imports into the Community of the products in ques­ following its publication in the Official Journal of tion, originating in countries covered by preferential the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 July 1973 .

For the Commission The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

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