Article 6 special consultation procedure set out in Article 15 ( 1 ) of the Agreement shall be initiated forthwith .1. Exports shall be set off against the quantitative limitsestablished for the year in which shipment of the goods has 2. Exports of Hong Kong origin not covered by exportbeen effected , even if the export certificate is issued after such licences issued by Hong Kong in accordance with theshipment . provisions of this Protocol may be refused the issue of appropriate import documents by the competent2. For the purposes of applying paragraph 1 , the date of Community authorities .shipment of the goods is considered to be the date of theirloading on to the exporting aircraft , vehicle or vessel . However , if the import of such products is allowed into the Community by the competent Community authorities , the quantities involved shall not be set off against the appropriate Article 7 quantitative limits set out in Annex II or established as a result of the application of Article 7 or 8 of the AgreementThe presentation of an export licence , in application of without the express agreement of Hong Kong .Article 8 below , shall be effected not later than 31 March ofthe year following that in which the goods covered by thelicence have been shipped . TITLE IV
limits established in Annex II , provided that the export Hong Kong in the event of recourse to the provisions oflicence certifies that the products concerned are for re-export paragraphs 1 , 2 and 3 above .outside the Community in the same state or afterprocessing . 6. Hong Kong shall provide the Community with export data showing the amounts of carryover available in any2. Where the competent authorities in the Community Agreement year . If substantial statistical differences existhave evidence that products exported from Hong Kong and between the export data from which the amount to be carriedset off by Hong Kong against a quantitative limit established over is calculated and the Community's data the Communityin Annex II have been subsequently re-exported outside the may , within the first 120 days of the following AgreementCommunity , the authorities concerned shall notify Hong year , request consultations in accordance with theKong of the quantities involved . Upon receipt of such procedures referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) on the amountsnotification , Hong Kong may authorize exports for the involved . Any such request shall be accompanied by fullcurrent or the following Agreement year of identical particulars of the alleged statistical differences . Where such aquantities of products , within the same category , which shall request is made , the portions carried over shall not be usednot be set off against the quantitative limits established in until the parties have completed consultations . If no suchAnnex II . request is made within a 120-day period , the portion carried over shall be presumed to have been calculated correctly . Article 61. In any one Agreement year advance use of a portion of Article 7the quantitative limit established for the followingAgreement year may be agreed following consultations in 1. Given the desire of both parties to eliminate real risksaccordance with the procedures referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ), of market disruption , and in view of the well-established andfor each category of products between 1 % and 5 % of the effective Hong Kong system of export authorization , thequantitative limit for the current Agreement year . Amounts following procedures shall apply .delivered in advance shall be deducted from thecorresponding quantitative limits established for the 2. Exports of textile products described in the categoriesfollowing Agreement year . listed in Annex I which are not subject to quantitative limits II . Other : 60.05-66 , 68 Men's and boys' suits ( including coordinate suits consisting of two or three pieces which are ordered , packed , consigned and normally sold together ), of knitted or crocheted fabric , not elastic or rubberized , of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres , excluding ski suits 77 60.03 Stockings , under stockings , socks , ankle-socks , 40 pairs 25 B II a ) sockettes and the like , knitted or crocheted , not elastic or rubberized : 60.03-24 , 26 Women's stockings of synthetic textile fibres NIMEXE Table of equivalence Category CCT heading No code Description ( 1982 ) pieces / kg g / piece 4 60.04 Under garments , knitted or crocheted , not elastic 6,48 154 B I or rubberized : II a ) b) 60.04-19 , 20 , 22 , 23 , 24 , Shirts , T-shirts , lightweight fine knit roll , polo c) 26 , 41 , 50 , 58 , 71 , 79 , or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers , IV b ) 1 aa ) 89 undervests and the like , knitted or crocheted , dd ) not elastic or rubberized , other than babies' 2 ee ) garments , of cotton or synthetic textile fibres ; d ) 1 aa ) T-shirts and lightweight fine knit roll , polo or size 86 ; 60.05-06 , 07 , 08 , 09 Babies' knitted outer garments , of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres ---pagebreak--- N ? L 388 / 24 Jornal Oficial das Comunidades Europeias 31 . 12 . 86 NIMEXE Table of equivalence Category CCT heading No code Description ( 1982 ) pieces / kg g / piece 72 60.05 Outer garments and other articles , knitted or 9,7 103 A II b ) 2 crocheted , not elastic or rubberized : A. Outer garments and clothing accessories : II . Other :