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

27 March 2008

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 188/2008

European Union (EU)* : Granting Certain Parties an Exemption from the Extended Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Certain Bicycle Parts Originating in the Mainland of China and Lifting the Suspension of Payment of the Extended Duty Granted to Certain Parties

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 455/2006 of 15 November 2006, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a decision to grant certain parties an exemption from the extended anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of certain bicycle parts originating in the Mainland of China and lift the suspension of payment of the extended duty granted to certain parties. The decision can be accessed through the following link :
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:081:0073:0080:EN:PDF.

DETAILS

2. Based on the findings of a circumvention investigation, the Council of the EU extended with effect from 19 January 1997 the definitive anti-dumping duty of 30.6% imposed on imports of bicycles originating in the Mainland of China to imports of certain bicycle parts originating in the Mainland of China. Subsequent to an interim review, the subject anti-dumping duty has been increased to 48.5% and imposed for a new five-year term starting from 15 July 2005. Bicycle assemblers in the EU could however request for exemption from the extended anti-dumping duty if they could prove, among other things, that their assembly operations did not circumvent the EU's anti-dumping duty imposed on bicycles originating in the Mainland of China.

3. Having examined the information provided by certain parties requesting for exemption from the extended anti-dumping duty, the Commission established that the value of the parts originating in the Mainland of China which were used in their assembly operations was lower than 60% of the total value of the parts used in these assembly operations. The Commission therefore decided to grant those parties the exemption from the extended anti-dumping duty. The parties concerned and the effective date for exemption are listed in Table 1 of Article 1 of the decision.

4. On the other hand, certain parties have failed to meet the criteria for exemption. The Commission therefore decided to lift the suspension of the payment of the extended anti-dumping duty previously granted to those parties as well as reject request for exemption of those whose suspension were not previously granted. Relevant details including the parties concerned and the effective date for lifting the suspension are shown in Table 2 of Article 2 and Table 4 of Article 4 of the decision.

5. Finally, the Commission has recently updated the list of parties whose requests for exemption are under examination. Details are shown in the Table 3 of Article 3 of the decision. The extended duties in respect of these parties have been suspended, pending the Commission's decision on their requests. The suspension of the extended duty for each individual party has taken effect on the respective dates shown in the Table 3.

ENQUIRIES

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

Yours faithfully,

(TANG Yu Him)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

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