No L 349/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 13. 12. 90 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3581/90 of 11 December 1990 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to the products of CN code 29400090 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 prefe- rences for 1990 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing.countries ('), and in particular Article 9 thereof, Whereas, in pursuance of Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3896/89, customs duties on certain products origina- ting in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex IIT 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 re-established, once the Commission has had an appropriate exchange of informa- tion 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 2940 00 90 originating in China, the reference base is fixed at ECU 688 000 ; whereas that reference base was reached on 10 July 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 16 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: CN code Description 2940 00 Sugars, chemically‘pure, other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose ; sugar ethers and sugar esters, and their salts, other than products of heading No 2937, 2938 or 2939: 2940 00 90 — Other Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Offmal Journal of the European Communities. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 11 December 1990. () OJ No L 383, 30. 12. 1989, p. 1. For the Commission Christiane SCRIVENER Member of the Commission