31974R1298

23 . 5 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 140 / 53

REGULATION (EEC) No 1298 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 22 May 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on men's and boys' under garments, including collars, shirt fronts and cuffs, falling within subheading No ex 61.03 , originating in India, 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 Whereas, in respect of men's and boys under COMMUNITIES, garments, including collars, shirt fronts and cuffs, of cotton fabric, the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above, should be 300 metric tons, and therefore the Economic Community ; maximum amount 90 metric tons ; whereas on 8 May Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1974 the amounts of imports into the Community of 3503/73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ men's and boys' under garments, including collars, ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ shirt fronts and cuffs, of cotton fabric, originating in nating in developing countries, and in particular India, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ Article 4 (2) thereof ; ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73 , which provides that maximum amounts provides that customs duties may, for each category of should not be exceeded, customs duties should be products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 150 % of the sum arrived at by adding re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to India, together the value of the products in question, in metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not including products coming from Article 1 ■ countries already covered by various preferential tariff As from 26 May 1974, the levying of customs duties, arrangements established by the Community, and 5% of the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3503 / 73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be coming from other countries and from countries re-established in respect of the following products, already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for imported into the Community and originating in India : products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a CCT maximum Community amount representing 50 % of heading Description of goods that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for No which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; ex 61.03 Men's and boys' under garments, including whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage collars, shirt fronts and cuffs : will be 30 % ; — Of cotton fabric Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at Article 2 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ries once the relevant Community maximum amount following its publication in the Official Journal of has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 May 1974. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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