No L 295/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 16. 11. 94 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2774/94 of 14 November 1994 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to producfs 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 (*) 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 (3, 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 lmportauons 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 : . CN code Origin . Reference base (ECU) 8544 China . 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 : Artz'cle 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 : ' () OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 1. () OJ No L 338, 31. 12. 1993, p. 22.