31974R0955

23 . 4 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 109 / 19

REGULATION ( EEC) No 955/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 19 April 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on handkerchiefs , of cotton fabric , falling within heading No ex 61.05 , originating in South Korea to which the pref­ erential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3503 / 73 of 18 December 1973 apply

x THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lated as indicated above, should be 90 metric tons, COMMUNITIES, and therefore the maximum amount 45 metric tons ; whereas on 9 April 1974 the amounts of imports into Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the Community of handkerchiefs, of cotton fabric, 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 3503/73 (') of 18 December 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 3503 /73, which provides that maximum Article 4 (2) thereof ; amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation question in relation to South Korea, provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : equal to 1 50 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question , in Article 1 metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that As from 26 April 1974, the levying of customs duties, Regulation , but not including products coming from suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) countries already covered by various preferential tariff No 3503 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be arrangements established by the Community, and re-established in respect of the following products, 5% of the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports imported into the Community and originating in South Korea : coming from other countries and from countries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, CCT having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for heading Description of goods products originating in any one of the countries listed No 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 — Of cotton fabric provides that the levying of customs duties may be 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 Article 2 amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of handkerchiefs, of cotton fabric 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, 19 April 1974. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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