No L 215/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 26. 7. 89 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2233/8% of 25 July 1989 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on alkaloids of cinchona, their derivatives and salts thereof, falling within CN codes 2939 21 10, 21 90 and 29 00 originating in Indonesia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 4257/88 apply THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic. Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4257/88 of 31 December. 1988 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1989 in respect -of certain industrial products originating .in developing countries ('), and in- particular Article 15 . thereof, Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of that Regulation, 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 14; Whereés, as provided for in Article 14 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 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 shall be, as a general rules, equal to 6 % of the total importations into- the Community, originating -from- third countries in 1987 ; Whereas, in the case of alkaloids of cinchona, their derivatives. and salts - thereof, falling within CN codes 2939 21 10, 21 90 and 29 00:originating in Indonesia, the reference base is fixed at ECU 781 000 ; whereas on- 27 February 1989, imports of these products into the Community originating in Indonesia reached the reference base in question after being charged there against ; 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 in respect -of the products in question must be re-established against Indonesia, : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 As from 29 July 1989, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4257/88, shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the following products originating in Indonesia : CN code Description — Alkaloids of cinéhona and their derivatives ; salts thereof : 2939 21 ~— = Quinine and its salts: 29392110 | — — — Quinine and quinine sulphate 29392190 | — — — Other 2939 29 00~ — — Other 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, 25 July 1989. () O] No L 375, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1. For. the Commission Christiane SCRIVENER Member of the Commission