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

5 December 2008

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 613/2008

European Union (EU) * : Granting Certain Parties a Suspension of the Extended Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Certain Bicycle Parts Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 188/2008 of 27 March 2008, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a notice to suspend certain parties from the extended anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of certain bicycle parts originating in the Mainland of China. The notice can be accessed through the following link : 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:310:0019:0020: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. The Commission has updated the list of parties whose requests for exemption are under examination. Details are shown in the Annex of the notice. 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 Annex. 

ENQUIRIES

4. 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.