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Ref.: EIC 230/2/3/2/13
13 April 2017
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 260/2017
European Union (EU)* : Results of expiry review of the anti-dumping measures on imports of okoumé plywood originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 135/2016 of 1 February 2016, the European Commission has published an implementing regulation to maintain the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of okoumé plywood 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:32017R0648&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Plywood consisting solely of sheets of wood, each ply not exceeding 6 mm thickness, with at least one outer ply of okoumé not coated by a permanent film of other materials, falling within CN code ex 4412 31 10 (TARIC code 4412 31 10 10) |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 66.7% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 6.5% to 23.5%) |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 7 April 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,
(Miss Jessica MAK)
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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