31977R0798

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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 798/77 of 19 April 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on broom and brush bodies and handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 ex B, originating in Brazil, 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 broom and brush bodies and handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 ex Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No B, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ 1 1 64 000 units of account, and therefore the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in maximum amount is 349 200 units of account ; developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) whereas on 8 April 1977, the amounts of imports into thereof, the Community of broom and brush bodies and handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 ex B, originating in Brazil, a country covered by preferen­ Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of gory of products, be suspended up to a Community Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs equal — with the exception of certain products of the duties should be re-established in respect of the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of products in question in relation to Brazil, the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived 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 Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ As from 24 April 1977, the levying of customs duties, ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for following products, imported into the Community the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of and originating in Brazil : the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of the addition ; CCT heading Description of goods No Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 44.25 Wooden tools, tool bodies, tool handles, be within a maximum Community amount repre­ broom and brush bodies and handles ; boot and shoe lasts and trees of wood : senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to ex B. Other : broom and brush bodies and be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to handles of wood that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ;

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, 19 April 1977 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission