31976R0347

No L 43 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 19 . 2 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 347 / 76 of 18 February 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41 A I b), originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN maximum 655 800 units of account ; whereas on 12 COMMUNITIES, February 1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of other sewing machines ; furniture Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European specially designed for sewing machines, originating in Economic Community, South Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ (EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) should be re-established in respect of the products in thereof, question in relation to South Korea,

Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : gory of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding Article 1 together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by As from 22 February 1976, the levying of customs those arrangements, but not including products duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation coming from countries and territories already covered ( EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be by various preferential tariff arrangements established re-established in respect of the following products, by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif imported into the Community and originating in South Korea : imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; CCT heading Description of goods No Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or 84.41 Sewing machines ; furniture specially territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should designed for sewing machines ; sewing be within a maximum Community amount repre­ machine needles : senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to A. Sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to I. Sewing machines (lock-stitch only), that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this with heads of a weight not reduced percentage will be 30 % . exceeding 16 kg without motor or 17 kg including the motor ; sewing Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that machine heads (lock-stitch only), of the levying of customs duties may be re-established at a weight not exceeding 16 kg any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ without motor or 17 kg including tion originating >n any of the said countries or territo­ the motor : ries once the relevant Community amount has been b) Other reached ;

Whereas, in respect of other sewing machines ; furni­ ture specially designed for sewing machines, the Article 2 ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 2 186 000 units of account, and therefore the This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 . the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 February 1976. For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission