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

13 October 2008

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 507/2008

European Union (EU)* : Notice of Expiry of Anti-dumping Measures on Imports of Integrated Electronic Compact Fluorescent lamps (CFL-i) Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 241/2008 of 21 April 2008, the European Commission has published a notice to announce the expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of integrated electronic compact fluorescent lamps (CFL-i) originating in the Mainland of China and on imports of the same product consigned from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Republic of the Philippines. The notice can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:258:0008:0008:EN:PDF.

DETAILS

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2. Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of CFL-i originating in the Mainland of China has been imposed since 20 July 2001. Following a circumvention investigation, the Council of the EU decided that with effect from 10 June 2005, the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of CFL-i was to be extended to imports of the same products consigned from Vietnam, Pakistan and/or the Philippines, whether declared as originating in Vietnam, Pakistan or the Philippines or not. 
    
3. Consequent to an expiry review, the Council of the EU maintained the definitive anti-dumping duty on the product concerned for one year, with effect from 18 October 2007. The current rate of duty is 66.1% of the net, free-at-Community-frontier price before duty (except for eight companies whose individual duty rates range from 0% to 59.5%).
    
4. In the absence of duly substantiated request for an expiry review, the anti-dumping duty on the product concerned will expire on 18 October 2008.

ENQUIRIES

5. For enquiries concerning the contents 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.