31973R3319

No L 339 /20 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 12. 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3319/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 December 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on handkerchiefs, of cotton , falling within heading No ex 61.05 , originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2629/73 of 26 September 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lated as indicated above , should be 15 metric tons, COMMUNITIES, and therefore the maximum amount 7-5 metric tons ; whereas on 4 December 1973 the amounts of imports Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European into the Community of handkerchiefs, of cotton , Economic Community ; falling within heading No ex 61.05 originating in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No South Korea a country covered by preferential tariff 2629/73 (') of 26 September 1973 establishing prefer­ arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation nating in developing countries, and in particular (EEC) No 2629/73, which provides that maximum Article 4 (2) thereof ; amounts should not be exceeded , Common Customs Tariff duties should be re-established in respect of the Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation products in question in relation to South Korea, provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to a quarter of the sum HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question , in metric tons, imported into the Commu­ Article 1 nity in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not including As from 11 December 1973 , Common Customs Tariff products coming from countries already covered by duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation various preferential tariff arrangements established by ( EEC) No 2629/73 of 26 September 1973, shall be the Community, and 5 % of the 1970 metric tonnage re-established in respect of the following products, of such imports coming from other countries and imported into the Community and originating in South Korea : from countries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas , having regard to that ceiling the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed CCT heading No Description of goods in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of ex 61.05 Handkerchiefs : that ceiling ; whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that Common Customs Tariff duties may be — Of cotton re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries once the relevant Community maximum * A rt itie 2 amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas , in respect of handkerchiefs, of cotton , following its publication in the Official Journal of falling within heading No ex 61.05, the ceiling, calcu­ the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 6 December 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

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