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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
13 December 2017
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 1138/2017
European Union (EU)* : Results of expiry review of the anti-dumping measures on imports of hand pallet trucks and their essential parts originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 814/2016 of 20 October 2016, the European Commission has published an implementing regulation to maintain the definitive anti dumping duty imposed on imports of hand pallet trucks and their essential parts originating in the Mainland of China following the expiry review. The regulation is available at:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R2206&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Hand pallet trucks and their essential parts, i.e. chassis and hydraulics, currently falling within CN codes ex 8427 90 00 (TARIC codes 8427 90 00 11, 8427 90 00 13 and
8427 90 00 19) and ex 8431 20 00 (TARIC codes 8431 20 00 11, 8431 20 00 13 and 8431 20 00 19) as extended to the same product but presented at import with a so-called 'weight indication system' consisting of a weighing mechanism not integrated in the chassis, that is to say not integrated in the forks, currently falling within TARIC codes 8427 90 00 30 and 8431 20 00 50. "Hand pallet trucks" are defined as trucks with wheels supporting lifting fork arms for handling pallets, designed to be manually pushed, pulled and steered, on smooth, level, hard surfaces, by a pedestrian operator using an articulated tiller. The hand pallet trucks are only designed to raise a load, by pumping the tiller, to a height sufficient for transporting and do not have any other additional functions or uses such as for example (i) to move and to lift the loads in order to place them higher or assist in storage of loads (high lifters); (ii) to stack one pallet above the other (stackers); (iii) to lift the load to a working level (scissor lifts); or (iv) to lift and to weigh the loads (weighing trucks). |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 70.8% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty (except for two companies whose individual duty rates are 54.1% and 70.8% ) |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 1 December 2017 |
| (d) Duration | : | 5 years |
3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact Yue Yang, Director of Trade Remedy Division under the Fair Trade Bureau of the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, at 8620 3881 9083. The Division is responsible for, among others, guiding and coordinating enterprises in Guangdong Province in responding to anti-dumping investigations against products from the province.
4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Manus LUI)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU member countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, 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.
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