31974R1504

18 . 6 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 162/7

REGULATION (EEC) No 1504/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 17 June 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton, falling within CCT subheading 60.04 A, 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 under garments, knitted or COMMUNITIES, crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 360 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European metric tons, and therefore the maximum amount 108 Economic Community ; metric tons ; whereas on 13 June 1974, the amounts Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No of imports into the Community of under garments, 3503/73 (J ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ cotton originating in India, a country covered by pref­ nating in developing countries, and in particular erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum Article 4 (2) thereof ; amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73, which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs provides that customs duties may, for each category of duties should be re-established respect of the products products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling in question in relation to India, equal to 150 % of the sum arrived at by adding 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 21 June 1974, the levying of customs duties, arrangements established by the Community, and suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) 5 % of the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports 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, imported into the Community and originating in having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for India : products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be Within a OCT 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 ; 60.04 Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage elastic or rubberized, of cotton : will be 30 % ; A. Of cotton 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, 17 June 1974. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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