31976R1308

No L 146/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 4 . 6 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1308 / 76 of 3 June 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on household utensils of wood falling within heading No 44.24 originating in Thailand to which the preferen­ tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3010 / 75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN nes once the relevant Community amount has been COMMUNITIES , reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of household utensils of wood , the Economic Community, ceiling, calculated as indicated above , should be 1 717 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No maximum amount is 858 500 units of account ; 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ whereas on 14 April 1976 , the amounts of imports tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in into the Community of household utensils of wood developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) originating in Thailand , a country covered by preferen­ thereof, tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation amount ; whereas , bearing in mind the objectives of provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ Regulation ( EEC) No 3010 / 75 which provides that gory of products, be suspended up to a Community maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be duties should be re-established in respect of the equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding products in question in relation to Thailand , together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements , but not including products Article 1 coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 7 June 1976, the levying of customs duties , by the Community , and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3010 / 75 of 17 November 1975 , shall be imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ re-established in respect of the following products, ments ; imported into the Community and originating in Thailand : Whereas , having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCI ' territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description of goods be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 44.24 Household utensils of wood be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; Article 2 Whereas Article 2 ( 2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ following its publication in the Official Journal of tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 3 June 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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