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Ref : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
4 May 2010
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 191/2010
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of Provisional Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Sodium Gluconate Originating in the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 411/2009 of 11 August 2009, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of sodium gluconate 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:2010:111:0005:0016:EN:PDF.
DETAILS
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Salient points are set out below –
(a) Product | : | Dry sodium gluconate with a Customs Union and Statistics (CUS) number 0023277-9 and a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number 527-07-1, currently falling within CN code ex 2918 16 00 (TARIC code 2918 16 00 10). |
(b) Rate of Duty | : | 53.4% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for two companies whose individual duty rates are respectively 5.6% and 27.3%). |
(c) Effective Date | : | 5 May 2010 (the duty will apply for 6 months). |
(d) Collection of Duty | : | The release of the product for free circulation in the Union 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 5 May 2010. |
ENQUIRIES
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For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Alex LI)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
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