31978R1611

\ No L 188 / 22 11 . 7 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1611 /78 of 10 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades, falling within subheading 42.03 B I and origi­ nating in Thailand, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regu­ lation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of gloves, including mittens and COMMUNITIES, mitts, protective, for all trades, falling within subheading 42.03 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above, should be 1 7 369 000 units of account, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European and therefore the maximum amount is 2 605 350 Economic Community, units of account ; whereas, on 7 July 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of gloves, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades, 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ falling within subheading 42.03 B I and originating in tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in Thailand, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­ developing countries ( 1), and in particular Article 4 (2) gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, thereof, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­ Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation established in respect of the products in question in provides that customs duties may, for each category of relation to Thailand, products, be suspended up to a Community 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 thereto — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Commu­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­ ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ Article 1 blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territories already covered by such As from 14 July 1978 , the levying of customs duties, arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; following products, imported into the Community and originating in Thailand : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to the aforesaid Regula­ heading Description No tion should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the / 42.03 Articles of apparel and clothing accesso­ exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated ries, of leather or of composition leather : in Annex A thereto ; whereas, for these products, this B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts : * reduced percentage will be 1 5 % ; I. Protective, for all trades

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) 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 question originating in any of the said Article 2 countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, 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, 10 July 1978 .

For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission