The Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and other Reliefs) (No. 2) Order 1994

3.—(1) Up to and including 31st December 1994, no customs duty shall be charged on goods falling within a heading or subheading in column 1 of Part III of Schedule 1 hereto (certain iron and steel products) which originate in a country named in column 2 in relation to that heading or subheading if they form part of the relevant quota.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) of this article and article 4 below, the “relevant quota” in relation to any heading or subheading means the amount (expressed as a value in pounds) of goods specified in column 3 of Part III of Schedule 1 hereto in respect of each of the countries named in column 2 in relation to that heading or subheading.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5) of this article, goods shall be treated as forming part of the relevant quota in the order in which an entry thereof for free circulation (within the meaning described in article 2(3) above) is accepted on or after the date of the opening of the quota, being an entry containing an application for relief from customs duty accompanied by such documents as may be required under the provisions of the EEC Regulation.

(4) The Commissioners may delay the acceptance of an application for relief from duty in respect of any goods for the purposes of paragraph (3) above for any period not exceeding 7 days from the date of the opening of the quota, and in such a case may, if the amount of the quota is smaller than the total amount of the goods in respect of which applications are made during that period, allocate the quota proportionally among all the applicants whose applications are accepted.

(5) Goods shall not be treated as forming part of the relevant quota if customs duty would not otherwise be chargeable.