Council Regulation (EC) No 1138/2008 of 13 October 2008 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Republic of Cuba pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of GATT 1994, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 1138/2008
• Articles: 3

Article 1

In Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Annex 7 entitled ‘WTO tariff quotas to be opened by the competent Community authorities’, of Section III of Part Three of Annex I, shall be supplemented with the volumes shown in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

It shall apply from the date of entry into force of the Agreement.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the concessions being determined, within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of the present Regulation. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the concessions are to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description taken together.

In Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Annex 7 entitled ‘WTO tariff quotas to be opened by the competent Community authorities’, of Section III of Part Three of Annex I, the other terms and conditions are the following:

CN Code

Description

Other terms and conditions

Tariff item numbers

1701 11 10

Raw cane sugar, for refining

Add a country allocation of 20 000  tonnes for Cuba for marketing year 2008/09 in the EC tariff rate quota, in-quota rate 98 EUR/t.

Add a country allocation of 10 000  tonnes for Cuba as from marketing year 2009/10 in the EC tariff rate quota, in-quota rate 98 EUR/t.