31977R2347

27 . 10 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 275/21

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2347/77

of 25 October 1977

re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, falling within subheadings 73.11 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), origi­ nating in Romania to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 73.1 1 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), the ceiling, calculated COMMUNITIES, as indicated above, should be 543 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 271 500 units of account ; whereas on 19 October Economic Community, 1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, failing 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ within subheadings 73.1 1 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in originating in Romania, a country covered by preferen­ developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2) tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum thereof, amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ duties should be re-established in respect of the gory of products, be suspended up to a Community products in question in relation to Romania, ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question Article 1 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by As from 30 October 1977, the levying of customs those arrangements, but not including products duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation coming from countries and territories already covered (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect by various preferential tariff arrangements established of the following products, imported into the Commu­ by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif nity and originating in Romania : imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange-, . CCT ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from heading Description of goods the sum of this addition may in no case exceed No 1 72*5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the 73.11 Angles, shapes and sections, of iron or addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded, cold­ second term of the addition ; formed or cold-finished ; sheet piling of iron or steel, whether or not drilled, Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts punched or made from assembled for products originating in any one of the countries or elements : territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should A. Angles, shapes and sections : be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of II . Not further worked than forged certain products for which the maximum amount is to III . Not further worked than cold­ formed or cold-finished be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation : IV. Clad or surface-worked (for example, polished, coated) : Whereas Article 2(2) of that Regulation provides that (a) Not further worked than clad : the levying of customs duties may be re-established at 2. Cold-formed or cold­ any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ finished tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ (b) Other ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ nity amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, falling within subheadings 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, 25 October 1977.

For the Commission

Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission