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

17 November 2008

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 562/2008

European Union (EU)* : Imposition of Provisional Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Certain Candles, Tapers and the Like Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 121/2008 of 18 February 2008, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain candles, tapers and the like originating in the Mainland of China. The regulation can be accessed through the following link :
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:306:0022:0046:EN:PDF.

DETAILS

2. Salient points are set out below -

   (a) Product	:	Candles, tapers and the like, other than memory lights and other outdoor burners, falling within CN codes ex 3406 00 11, ex 3406 00 19 and ex 3406 00 90 (TARIC codes 3406 00 11 90, 3406 00 19 90 and 3406 00 90 90). For the purposes of the regulation 'memory lights and other outdoor burners' means candles, tapers and the like which have one or more of the following characteristics : (i) their fuel contains more than 500ppm of toluene; (ii) their fuel contains more than 100ppm benzene; (iii) they have a wick with a diameter of at least 5 millimetres; (iv) they are individually contained in a plastic container with vertical walls of at least 5cm in height.
   (b) Rate of Duty	:	EUR 671.41 per tonne of fuel (except for a number of companies whose individual duty rates range from EUR 0 per tonne of fuel to EUR 593.17 per tonne of fuel).
   (c) Effective Date	:	16 November 2008 (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 16 November 2008.

ENQUIRIES

3. 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.