No L 170/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 5.7.94 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1614/94 of 1 July 1994 re-etablishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to products falling within CN code 8509 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 generallzed 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 (%, 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 of territories listed in Annex III are totally suspended from 1 January 1994 to 30 June 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 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 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 products 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) 8509 China ’ 8 050 000 Whereas that reference base was reached on 30 April 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 reintroduced for the products in question, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 As from 8 July 1994, the levying of customs duties, suspended from 1 January 1994 to 30 June 1994 in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 shall be reintroduced 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.