31974R1025

No L 117/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 4 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1025 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 26 April 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on flax or ramie yarn , not put up for retail sale falling within heading No 54.03 , originating in Brazil , 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 above , should be 210 metric tons, and therefore the COMMUNITIES , maximum amount 105 metric tons ; whereas on 23 April 1974 the amounts of imports into the Commu­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European nity of flax or ramie yarn, not put up for retail sale, Economic Community ; originating in Brazil , a country covered by preferential Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tariff 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 amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties footwear originating in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Brazil , 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 coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regu­ As from 3 May 1974, the levying of customs duties lation, but not including products coming from coun­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3505/73 of 18 December 1973 shall be tries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ gements established by the Community, and 5 % of re-established in respect of the following products, the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports coming imported into the Community and originating in Brazil : 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 No Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling ; whereas 54.03 Flax or ramie yarn , not put up for retail Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the sale 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 rele­ Article 2 vant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of flax or ramie yarn, not put up following its publication in the Official Journal of for retail sale the ceiling, calculated as indicated the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 April 1974 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

(>) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 84.