COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2774/94 of 14 November 1994 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to products falling within CN code 8544 originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 of 20 December 1990 (1) applying generalized tariff preferences for 1991 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries, extended for 1994 by Regulation (EC) No 3668/93 of 20 December 1993 (2), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90, customs duties on certain products originating in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III are totally suspended from 1 July 1994 to 31 December 1994, 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 country, 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 6,615 % of the total importations into the Community, originating from third countries in 1988;

Whereas, in the case of the product of the combined nomenclature code and origin indicated in the table below, the reference base is fixed at the levels indicated in that table:

"" ID="1">8544> ID="2">China> ID="3">9 972 500">

Whereas that reference base was reached on 11 September 1994 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 must be re-established for the products in question,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 19 November 1994, the levying of customs duties, suspended from 1 July 1994 to 31 December 1994 pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90, shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the products indicated in the table below:

"" ID="1">8544 > ID="2">Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors:> ID="3">China"> ID="2"> Winding wire:"> ID="1">8544 11 > ID="2"> Of copper:"> ID="1">8544 11 10> ID="2"> Lacquered or enamelled"> ID="1">8544 11 90> ID="2"> Other"> ID="1">8544 19 > ID="2"> Other:"> ID="1">8544 19 10> ID="2"> Lacquered or enamelled"> ID="1">8544 19 90> ID="2"> Other"> ID="1">8544 20 00> ID="2"> Coaxial cable and other coaxial electric conductors"> ID="1">8544 30 > ID="2"> Ignition wiring sets and other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, aircraft or ships:"> ID="1">8544 30 10> ID="2"> For use in civil aircraft (1)"> ID="1">8544 30 90> ID="2"> Other"> ID="2"> Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 80 V:"> ID="1">8544 41 > ID="2"> Fitted with connectors:"> ID="1">8544 41 10> ID="2"> Of a kind used for telecommunications"> ID="1">8544 41 90> ID="2"> Other"> ID="1">8544 49 > ID="2"> Other:"> ID="1">8544 49 20> ID="2"> Of a kind used for telecommunications"> ID="1">8544 49 80> ID="2"> Other"> ID="2"> Other electric conductors, for a voltage exceeding 80 V but not exceeding 1 000 V:"> ID="1">8544 51 00> ID="2"> Fitted with connectors"> ID="1">8544 59 > ID="2"> Other:"> ID="1">8544 59 10> ID="2"> Wire and cables, with individual conductor wires of a diameter exceding 0,51 mm"> ID="2"> Other:"> ID="1">8544 59 20> ID="2"> For a voltage of 1 000 V"> ID="1">8544 59 80> ID="2"> For a voltage exceeding 80 V but less than 1 000 V"> ID="1">8544 60 > ID="2"> Other electric conductors, for a voltage exceeding 1 000 V:"> ID="1">8544 60 10> ID="2"> With copper conductors"> ID="1">8544 60 90> ID="2"> With other conductors">

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, 14 November 1994.

For the Commission

Christiane SCRIVENER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 338, 31. 12. 1993, p. 22.