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Ref : EIC 230/2/3/2/13

14 May 2005

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 168/2005

European Union (EU)* : Result of "New Exporter" Review of the Anti-dumping Measures on Imports of Certain Electronic Weighing Scales Originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 199/2004 of 7 August 2004, the Council of the EU has published a regulation announcing its decision to re-impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain electronic weighing scales originating in the mainland of China from two related mainland companies, Shanghai Excell M&E Enterprise Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Adeptech Precision Co., Ltd., consequent to a "new exporter" review. With the imposition of the anti-dumping duty, the registration of imports of the subject product produced by these two companies is discontinued. A copy of the regulation is at Annex (pdf format) for reference. Salient points are set out below-

BACKGROUND

2. Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain electronic weighing scales originating in, inter alia, the mainland of China has been imposed since 1 December 2000 at a rate of 30.7% of the net, free-at-Community-frontier price before duty (except for three companies with individual duty rates ranging from 0% to 12.8%).
    
3. Two related mainland companies, Shanghai Excell M&E Enterprise Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Adeptech Precision Co., Ltd. (the applicant) requested a "new exporter" review. The applicant claimed that it had started exporting the product concerned to the Community only after the original investigation period (1 September 1998 to 31 August 1999) on which the anti-dumping measures were based, and that it was not related to the mainland exporting producers which are subject to the anti-dumping measures. The European Commission therefore initiated the "new exporter" review on 4 August 2004. The anti-dumping duty in force with regard to the imports concerned supplied by the applicant was therefore repealed. At the same time, such imports were subject to registration for nine months from 4 August 2004, so that anti-dumping duties can be levied retroactively should the review result in a determination of dumping in respect of the applicant.

ENQUIRIES

4. For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5351.

Yours faithfully,



(Ricky CHENG)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry 

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.