2. 8. 88 foiciql Journal of the European Communities No L 208/7 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2413/88 : of 1 August 1988 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on artificial flowers and fruit of CN codes 6702 10 00 and 6702 90.00 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, Havmg regard to the Treaty establlshmg 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 ('), and in particular Article 16 thereof, Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3635/87, duties on certain products, originating in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III shall be totally suspended and the products as such shall, as a general rule, be subject to statistical surveillance every three months on the reference base referred to in- Article 15. v Whereas, as provxded for in Article 15 of that Regulation where the increase of preferential imports of these ' products, originating in one or more beneficiary countries, causes, or threatens to cause, economic difficulties in the Community or 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 shall be, as a general rule, equal to § % of the total importations into the Community originating from third countries in 1986 ; Whereas, in the case of artificial flowers and fruit falling within CN codes 6702 10 00 and 6702 90 00 originating in China the individual ceiling was fixed at 5240 000 ECU; whereas, on 24 June 1988, imports of these products into the Community originating in China reached the ceiling in question after being charged thereagainst; whereas the exchange of . information organized by the Commission has demonstrated that -continuance of the preference causes economic difficulties in a region of the Community ; 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 5 August 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: ‘ CN code Description 67021000 | Artificial flowers, foliage and fruit and parts 6702 90 00 thereof ; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit: — of plastics — of other materials Article 2 This ReguIation 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, 1 August 1988. () OJ No L 350, 12. 12. 1987, p. 1. For the Commission Stanley CLINTON DAVIS Member of the Commission