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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3172/87

of 23 October 1987

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on footwear with uppers of leather, falling within subheading 64.02 A, and to sheep and lamb skin leather, falling within subheading 41.03 B II of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/86 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/86 of 16 December 1986 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1987 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries (1), and in particular Article 15 thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Articles 1 and 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 3924/86, suspension of customs duties shall be accorded to each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III other than those listed in column 4 of Annex I, within the framework of the preferential tariff ceiling fixed in column 9 of Annex I;

Whereas, as provided for in Article 13 of that Regulation, as soon as the individual ceilings in question are reached at Community level, the levying of customs duties on imports of the products in question originating in each of the countries and territories concerned may at any time be re-established;

Whereas, in the case of footwear with uppers of leather, falling within subheading 64.02 A and to sheep and lamb skin leather, falling within subheading 41.03 B II of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in India, the individual ceiling was fixed at 3 600 000 and 2 400 000 ECU respectively; whereas, on 13 October 1987, imports of these products into the Community originating in India reached the ceiling in question after being charged thereagainst; whereas it is appropriate to re-establish the levying of customs duties in respect of the products in question against India,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 27 October 1987, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3924/86, shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the following products originating in India:

1.2.3 // // // // Order No // CCT heading No and NIMEXE-code // Description // // // // 10.0670 // 64.02 (64.02-21, 29, 32, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59) // Footwear with outer soles of leather or composition leather; footwear (other than footwear falling within heading No 64.01) with outer soles of rubber or artificial plastic material: A. Footwear with uppers of leather // 10.0530 // 41.03 (41.03-99) // Sheep and lamb skin leather, except leather falling within heading No 41.06 or 41.08: B. Other: II. Other // // //

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, 23 October 1987.

For the Commission

COCKFIELD

Vice-President

(1) OJ No L 373, 31. 12. 1986, p. 1.