COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3272/92

of 10 November 1992

re-restablishing the levying of customs duties on products falling within CN code ex 2904 20 90, originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 of 20 December 1990 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1991 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries (1), extended for 1992 by Regulation (EEC) No 3587/91 (2), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of that Regulation, suspension of customs duties shall be accorded for 1992 to each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III, 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 reintroduced, 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 6,615 % of the total importations into the Community, originating from third countries in 1988;

Whereas, in the case of products falling within CN code ex 2904 20 90, originating in China, the reference base is fixed at ECU 43 000; whereas, on 31 March 1992, imports of these products into the Community originating in China reached the reference base in question after being charged thereagainst; 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 reintroduced with regard to China,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 15 November 1992, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90, shall be reintroduced on imports into the Community of the following products, originating in China: >TABLE>

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, 10 November 1992. For the Commission

Christiane SCRIVENER

Member of the Commission