31974R0685

28 . 3 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 83/ 15

REGULATION ( EEC) No 685 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 27 March 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on women 's, girls' and infants' undergarments, other than of cotton falling within heading No ex 61.04, origi­ nating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3505/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN and therefore the maximum amount 53 metric tons ; COMMUNITIES, whereas on 25 March 1974 the amounts of imports into the Community of women's, girls' and infants' Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European undergarments, other than of cotton, originating in Economic Community ; South Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No arrangements reached that maximum amount ; 3505/73 ( ! ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products and ( EEC) No 3505/73 which provides that maximum footwear originating in developing countries, and in amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to South Korea, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of textile products, be suspended up to a Community HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ceiling equal to 1 50 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the metric tonnage of the products in Article 1 question, imported into the Community in 1968 and As from 31 March 1974, the levying of customs duties coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regu­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) lation, but not including products coming from coun­ No 3505/ 73 of 18 December 1973 shall be tries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ re-established in respect of the following products, gements established by the Community, and 5 % of imported into the Community and originating in the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports coming South Koea : from other countries and from countries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating CCT in any one of the countries listed in Annex B to that heading Description of goods Regulation should be within a maximum Community No amount representing 50 % of that ceiling ; whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the ex. 61.04 Women's girls' and infants' undergarments, levying of customs duties may be re-established at any other than of cotton time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries once the rele­ vant Community maximum amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of women's, girls' and infants' This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day undergarments, other than of cotton , the ceiling, calcu­ following its publication in the Official Journal of lated as indicated above, should be 106 metric tons, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 27 March 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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