31989R3340

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3340/89

of 7 November 1989

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on yarn of staple or waste artificial fibres, not put up for retail sale, products of category 23 (order No 40.0230), originating in India, to which the preferencial tariff arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4259/88 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4259/88 of 19 December 1988 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1989 to textile products originating in developing countries (1), and in particular Article 13 thereof,

Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 4259/88 provides that preferential tariff treatment shall be accorded, for each category of products subjected in Annexes I and II thereto to individual ceilings, within the limits of the quantities specified in column 8 of Annex I and column 7 of Annex II, in respect of certain or reach of the countries or territories of origin referred to in column 5 of the same Annexes;

Whereas Article 12 of the abovementioned Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question once the relevant individual ceilings have been reached at Community level;

Whereas, in respect of yarn of staple or waste artificial fibres, not put up for retail sale products of category 23 (order No 40.0230), originating in India, the relevant ceiling amounts to 293 tonnes;

Whereas on 27 April 1989 imports of the products in question into the Community, originating in India, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached and were charged against that ceiling;

Whereas it is appropriate to re-establish the levying of customs duties for the products in question with regard to India,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 11 November 1989, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 4259/88, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in India:

1.2.3.4 // // // // // Order No // Category (unit) // tonnes; Whereas CN code // Description // // // // // // // // // 40.0230 // 23 (tonnes) // 5508 20 10 5510 11 00 5510 12 00 5510 20 00 5510 30 00 5510 90 00 // Yarn of staple or waste artificial fibres, not put up for retail sale // // // //

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 November 1989.

For the Commission

Christiane SCRIVENER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 375, 31. 12. 1988, p. 83.