31975R0687

15 . 3 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 68 / 17

REGULATION ( EEC) No 687 /75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 14 March 1975

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on outer garments and clothing accessories, falling within subheading 60.05 A I , originating in Mexico, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3048 /74 of 2 December 1974 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be two COMMUNITIES , metric tons, and therefore the maximum amount 0-600 metric tons, whereas on 13 March 1975 the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European amounts of imports into the Community of outer Economic Community ; garments and clothing accessories, falling within Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No subheading 60.05 A I, originating in Mexico, a 3048/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­ country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, tial tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in nating in developing countries, and in particular mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3048 /74 Article 4 (2) thereof ; which provides that maximum amounts should not be Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in provides that customs duties may, for each category of respect of the products in question in relation to products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling Mexico, equal to 1 57-5 % of the sum arrived at by adding HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : together the value of the products in question, in metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968 Article 1 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that As from 18 March 1975, the levying of customs Regulation, but not including products coming from duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation countries already covered by various preferential tariff ( EEC) No 3048 /74 of 2 December 1974, 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 coming from other countries and from countries Mexico : already covered by such arrangements ; whereas , having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for

CCT products originating in any one of the countries listed heading Description of goods in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a No maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for 60.05 Outer garments and other articles, knitted which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized : percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; A. Outer garments and clothing accesso­ whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage ries : will be 30 % ; I. Jerseys and pullovers, containing at Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that least 50 % by weight of wool and the levying of customs duties may be re-established at weighing 600 g or more per article any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been Article 2 reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of outer garments and clothing following its publication in the Official Journal of accessories, falling within subheading 60.05 A I, the the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 March 1975 .

For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 329, 9 . 12. 1974, p. 24.