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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 348 /77 of 18 February 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on gloves , including mittens and mitts, protective , for all trades falling within subheading 42.03 B I , origi­ nating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ COMMUNITIES , ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ nity amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades falling within Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No subheading 42.03 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ cated above , should be 1 5 790 000 units of account, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in and therefore the maximum amount is 3 158 000 developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) units of account ; whereas on 14 February 1977, the thereof, amounts of imports into the Community of gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades falling within subheading 42.03 B I, originating in Whereas Article 1 ( 3) and (4) of that Regulation Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; gory of products, be suspended up to a Community whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be ( EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that maximum equal — with the exception of certain products the amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of should be re-established in respect of the products in the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by question in relation to Hong Kong, 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 ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of As from 22 February 1977, the levying of customs this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for ( EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of of the following products, imported into the Commu­ the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of nity and originating in Hong Kong : 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 42.03 Articles of apparel and clothing accesso­ be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of ries, of leather or of composition leather : certain products for which the maximum amount is to B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to I. Protective , for all trades that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ;

Article 2 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques 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, 18 February 1977. For the Commission Antonio GIOLITTI Member of the Commission