16. 7. 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 182/7 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1736/94 of 14 July 1994 ending the charges against the reference bases opened from 1 January 1994 to 30 June 1994, in the framework of generalized tariff preferences, by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 in respect of certain industrial products originating in China 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 prefe- rences for 1991 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries, extended for 1994 by Regulation (EC) No 3668/93 (%), 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 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 countries, 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 informa- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion 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 CN codes indicated in the table and originating in China, the reference base is fixed at the level indicated in that table : . (in ecus) CN code Reference base 29071500 694 000 8544 9 972 500 Whereas that reference base was reached on 31 March 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, Article 1 The quantities charged against the reference bases opened from 1 January 1994 to 30 June 1994 by Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 relating to the products originating in China and indicated in the table, shall cease to be allowed from 19 July 1994: CN code Description 2907 1500 — — Naphthols and their salts 8544 Insulated (including enamelled or anodized) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors ; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors : — Winding wire : 854411 — — Of copper: 85441110 — ~ — Lacquered or enamelled 8544 11 90 — — — Other () OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 1. ) OJ No L 338, 31. 12. 1993, p. 22.