31973R3317

No L 339 / 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 12 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 3317 / 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 December 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on other articles of iron or steel , falling within heading No 73.40 , originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferen­ tial 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 other articles of iron or steel COMMUNITIES , falling within heading No 73.40 the ceiling, calculated as indicated above , should be 3 143 000 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European account, and therefore the maximum amount 942 900 Economic Community ; units of account ; whereas on 4 December 1973 the Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No amounts of imports into the Community of other arti­ 2762/ 72 (') of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ cles of iron or steel falling within heading No 73.40 ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating originating in Yugoslavia a country covered by prefer­ in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum thereof ; amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties maximum amounts should not be exceeded , Common may, for each category of products, be suspended up Customs Tariff duties should be re-established in to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of respect of the products in question in relation to account, which will usually be equal to the sum Yugoslavia, arrived at by adding together the value of the products 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 by various preferential tariff arrangements established Article 1 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ As from 11 December 1973 , Common Customs Tariff tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ments ; ( EEC) No 2762 / 72 of 19 December 1972, shall be re-established in respect of the following products , Whereas , having regard to that ceiling, the amounts imported into the Community and originating in for products originating in any one of the countries or Yugoslavia : territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of CCT heading No Description of goods certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas , for those products, this 73.40 Other articles of iron or 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 Jonnutl of maximum amount has been reached : the Eiirobcitn Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 6 December 1973 . b'or the (j) )))»i ission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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