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Commercial Information Circulars

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

3 December 2008

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 604/2008

European Union (EU) * : Imposition of a Definitive Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Citric Acid Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 306/2008 of 3 June 2008, the Council of the EU has published a regulation to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of citric acid 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:2008:323:0001:0015:EN:PDF.

DETAILS

  1.  
  2. Salient points are set out below - 
(a) Product : Citric acid and trisodium citrate dihydrate, falling within CN codes 2918 14 00 and ex 2918 15 00 (TARIC code 2918 15 00 10).
(b) Rate of Duty : 42.7% of the net, free-at-Community-frontier price before duty (except for 8 companies whose individual duty rates range from 6.6% and 42.7%).
(c) Effective Date : 4 December 2008 
(d) Duration : 5 years
(e) Collection of
Duty		 : Amounts secured by way of provisional anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of the product concerned since 4 June 2008 will be definitively collected. The amount secured in excess of the amount of the definitive duty will be released.

ENQUIRIES

  1. 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.



Note ：

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) The biweekly newsletter "Business Alert - EU" of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council provides up-to-date information on the latest developments in EU trade policy and trade regulations. The newsletter is available for free e-subscription and can be accessed through
    http://www.tdctrade.com/alert/eualert.htm.