EU duties on RI products

EU duties on RI products

BRUSSELS (AFP): The European Commission is to reintroduce import duties on leather-topped shoes from Indonesia, and radio and television equipment from Malaysia and China, effective on Aug. 26, the European Union's official journal indicated yesterday.

These products were covered by generalized preferences accorded by the EU to developing countries within certain limits.

However imports of these goods for the period between July 1 to Dec. 31, 1994 have already gone beyond these limits, and the Commission moved rapidly to reintroduce the duties.

The six-month ceiling on imports of leather-topped shoes from Indonesia is set at 2.205 million Ecus (US$2.69 million) and those for broadcasting receivers, radio telephones and radio telegraphic equipment from Malaysia and China are set at 2.315 million Ecus.

The ceiling for television sets (including video monitors) imported from Malaysia and China is set at 2.315 million Ecus.