31976R1691

No L 190 / 20 Official Journal of the European Communities 14 . 7 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1691 /76 of 13 July 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other outer garments, clothing accessories, etc., of cotton , falling within subheadings 60.05 A ex II and ex B, originating in Pakistan , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN cated above, should be 166 metric tons, and therefore COMMUNITIES, the maximum amount is 49-80 metric tons ; whereas on 6 July 1976 the amounts of imports into the Community of other outer garments, clothing accesso­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European ries, etc., of cotton, falling within subheadings 60.05 A Economic Community, ex II and ex B, originating in Pakistan, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75, which Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No provides that maximum amounts should not be 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in tial tariffs in respect of certain cotton textile and like products originating in developing countries (1 ), and respect of the products in question in relation to Pakistan , in particular Article 4 (2) thereof,

Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : equal to 1 66 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question, in metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Article 1 Regulation, but not including products coming from countries already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and As from 17 July 1976, the levying of customs duties, 5% of the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) coming from other countries and from countries No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, re-established in respect of the following products, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for imported into the Community and originating in products originating in any one of the countries listed Pakistan : in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the CCT heading Description of goods percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; No whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ; 60.05 , Outer garments and other articles, knitted or crocheted , not elastic or rubberized : A. Outer garments and clothing acces­ Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that sories : the levying of customs duties may be re-established at ex II . Other, of cotton any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ ex B. Other, of cotton tion originating in any of the said countries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached :

Article 2 Whereas, in respect of other outer garments, clothing accessories, etc ., of cotton , falling within subheadings 60.05 A ex II and ex B, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of C ) OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 9 . 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, 13 July 1976 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission