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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC ) No 3478/90

of 30 November 1990

re-establishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to the products of CN code 2817 00 00 originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3896/89 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3896/89 of 18 December 1989 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1990 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries ( 1 ), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 3896/89, customs duties on certain products originating in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III are totally suspended, and the products as such are, as a general rule, subject to statistical surveillance every three months on the reference base referred to in Article 8;

Whereas, as provided for in Article 8, where the increase of preferential imports of these products, originating in one or more beneficiary countries, threatens to cause economic difficulties in a region of the Community, the levying of customs duties may be re-established, once the Commission has had an appropriate exchange of information with the Member States; whereas for this purpose the reference base to be considered is equal, as a general rule, to 6 % of the total importations into the Community, originating from third countries in 1987;

Whereas, in the case of the products of CN code 2817 00 00 originating in China, the reference base is fixed at ECU 317 000; whereas that reference base was reached on 31 January 1990 by charges of imports into the Community of the products in question originating in China; whereas the exchange of information organized by the Commission has demonstrated that continuance of the preference threatens to cause economic difficulties in a region of the Community; whereas, therefore, customs duties for the products in question must be re-established with regard to China,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article 1

As from 4 December 1990, the levying of customs duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3896/89, shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the following products, originating in China :

1.2CN code

Description

2817 00 00

Zinc oxide; zinc peroxide // //

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, 30 November 1990 .

For the Commission

Christiane SCRIVENER

Member of the Commission

( 1 ) OJ No L 383, 30 . 12 . 1989, p . 1 .