31978R0051

No L 9/ 16 12 . 1 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 51 / 78 of 10 January 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­ ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods falling within heading No 61.10 , originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­ COMMUNITIES , ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above, should be 21 tonnes, and therefore the Economic Community, maximum amount is 10.5 tonnes ; whereas on 9 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No January 1978 the amounts of imports into the 2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating Community of gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and providing for the administration of Community and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, tariff preferences for textile products originating in originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by developing countries and territories (*), and in parti­ preferential tariff arrangements, reached that cular Article 4 thereof, maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 which provides that customs duties may, for each category of provides that maximum amounts should not be products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 % respect of the products in question in relation to of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of Hong Kong, the products in question, in tonnes, imported into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in Annex D thereto, but not including products coming from countries already covered by various pref­ Article 1 erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­ As from 15 January 1978 , the levying of customs nity, and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation coming from other countries and from countries (EEC) No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, of the following products, imported into the Commu­ having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for nity and originating in Hong Kong : products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be within a maximum Commu­ CCT nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with heading Description the exception of certain products for which the No maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to the abovementioned Regula­ 61.10 Gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and tion ; sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that goods the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ Article 2 tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ tories, with exception of countries listed in Annex E This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day thereto, once the relevant Community maximum following its publication in the Official Journal of amount has been reached ; the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 10 January 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p. 67.