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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2077/88

of 13 July 1988

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nails, tacks and drawing pins, falling within combined nomenclature code 7317, originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3635/87 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3635/87 of 17 November 1987 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1988 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries (1), and in particular Article 16 thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 and 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 3635/87, 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 14 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 nails, tacks and drawing pins, falling within combined nomenclature code 7317, originating in China, the individual ceiling was fixed at 1 500 000 ECU; whereas, on 6 July 1988, imports of these products into the Community originating in China 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 China,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 17 July 1988, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3635/87, shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the following products originating in China:

1.2.3 // // // // Order No // CN code // Description // // // // 10.0880 // 7317 // Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (other than those of code 8305) and similar articles of iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other material, but excluding such articles with heads of copper // // //

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, 13 July 1988.

For the Commission

COCKFIELD

Vice-President

(1) OJ No L 350, 12. 12. 1987, p. 1.

Amendments and corrections
December 31, 1988	See 387R3635
July 17, 1988	Entry into force - Date pub. + 3 See Art 2