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Ref : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
2 August 2005
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 288/2005
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of Provisional Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Tartaric Acid Originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 279/2004 of 6 November 2004, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of tartaric acid originating in the mainland of China. A copy of the regulation is at Annex (pdf format) for reference. Salient points are set out below-
| (a) Product | : | Tartaric acid, falling within CN code 2918 12 00. |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 34.9% of the net, free-at-Community-frontier price before duty (except for three companies with individual duty ranging from 2.4% to 13.8%). |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 30 July 2005 (the duty will apply for 6 months). |
| (d) Collection of Duty | : | The release of the product for free circulation in the Community shall be subject to the provision of a security equivalent to the amount of the provisional duty. |
| (e) Time Limit for Comments | : | Interested parties may make their views known in writing and apply to be heard by the Commission within one month from 30 July 2005. |
ENQUIRIES
- 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.
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