31977R0110

No L 18/ 10 21 . 1 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 110 /77 of 20 January 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters etc., and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel , falling within subheading 82.14 A, originating in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ COMMUNITIES, tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ ries, with the exception of those listed in Annex C, once the relevant Community amount has been Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European reached ; Economic Community,

Whereas in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc., of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A, the 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 4 437 000 units of account, and therefore the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in maximum amount is 665 500 units of account ; developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, whereas on 10 January 1977 the amounts of imports into the Community of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc., of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation originating in South Korea, a country covered by pref­ provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum gory of products, be suspended up to a Community amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of ceiling expressed in units of account, which will be Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that equal — with the exception of certain products the maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to duties should be re-established in respect of the the abovementioned Regulation — to the sum arrived products in question in relation to South Korea, at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ Article 1 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from As from 24 January 1977 the levying of customs the sum of this addition may in no case exceed duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the ( EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the of the following products, imported into the Commu­ addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the nity and originating in South Korea : second term of the addition ;

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description of goods No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 82.14 be within a maximum Community amount repre­ Spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, ladles and similar kitchen or tableware : senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to A. Of stainless steel be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 15% ; 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 following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 . 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, 20 January 1977 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission