31974R0391

15 . 2 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 43 /39

REGULATION ( EEC) No 391 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 13 February 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn , not put up for retail sale , falling within subheading No 55.05 A, originating in Colombia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3503 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN the amounts of imports into the Community of COMMUNITIES , cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale, falling within subheading 55.05 A, originating in Colombia, a Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, Economic Community ; reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73 3503/73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ which provides that maximum amounts should not be ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should be nating in developing countries, and in particular re-established in respect of the products in question Article 4 (2) thereof ; in relation to Colombia, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling Art iclc 1 equal to 150 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question , in As from 18 February 1974, the levying of customs metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968 duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that ( EEC) No 3503/ 73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be Regulation, but not including products coming from re-established in respect of the following products, countries already covered by various preferential tariff imported into the Community and originating in arrangements established by the Community, and Colombia : 5 % of the 1 970 metric tonnage of such imports coming from other countries and from countries CCT heading Description of goods already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, No having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a 55.05 Cotton yarn , not put up for retail sale : maximum Community amount representing 50 % of A. Multiple or cabled , finished , in balls, that ceiling ; whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation or on cards , reels , tubes or similar provides that the levying of customs duties may be supports , of a weight ( including sup­ re-established at any time in respect of imports of the port ) not exceeding 900 g products in question originating in any of the said countries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day should be 30 metric tons , and therefore the maximum following its publication in the Official Journal of amount 15 metric tons ; whereas on 7 February 1974 the Eu ropea n Co mm u n it its.

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

Done at Brussels, 13 February 1974. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , p . 69 .