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Commercial Information Circulars

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

15 September 2006

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 362/2006

European Union (EU)* : Imposition of Provisional Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Certain Tungsten Electrodes Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 536/2005 of 19 December 2005, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain tungsten electrodes 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 : Certain tungsten electrodes (including tungsten bars and rods for electrodes), other than those obtained simply by sintering, whether or not cut to length, falling within CN codes ex 8101 95 00 and ex 8515 90 90 (TARIC codes 8101 95 00 10 and 8515 90 90 10).
(b) Rate of Duty : 86.8% of the net, free-at-Community-frontier price before duty (except for 3 companies whose individual duty rates range from 25.9% to 46.9%).
(c) Effective Date : 15 September 2006 (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 request disclosure of the essential facts and considerations on the basis of which the regulation was adopted, make their views known in writing and apply to be heard by the Commission within one month from 15 September 2006.

ENQUIRIES

  1. For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5350.

 

Yours faithfully,


(Bill WONG)
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.

Electronic services for Production Notification and Certificate of Origin enable traders to make the relevant applications directly through their office computer faster and easier. Electronic service has now been extended to the submission of Cargo Manifests and Textiles Notifications. For details and enquiries,
please call the following service providers:
Global e-Trading Services Limited (Tel. : 8109 1820)
Tradelink Electronic Commerce Limited (Tel. : 2599 1700)

Note : While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.


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