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Commercial Information Circular

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e-mail address : enquiry@tid.gov.hk

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

15 June 2017

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 486/2017

European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a definitive countervailing duty and amendment to the Council implementing regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circulars Nos. 434/2016 of 16 May 2016 and 797/2016 of 12 October 2016, the European Commission (the Commission) has published an implementing regulation (the regulation) to impose a definitive countervailing duty on imports of hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the Mainland of China, and to amend the Council implementing regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on such imports by revising the rate of definitive anti-dumping duty in force. The regulation is available at :
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0969&from=EN.

2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below-

(a) Product : Certain flat-rolled products of iron, non-alloy steel or other alloy steel, whether or not in coils (including 'cut-to-length' and 'narrow strip' products), not further worked than hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated, currently falling within CN codes 7208 10 00, 7208 25 00, 7208 26 00, 7208 27 00, 7208 36 00, 7208 37 00, 7208 38 00, 7208 39 00, 7208 40 00, 7208 52 10, 7208 52 99, 7208 53 10, 7208 53 90, 7208 54 00, 7211 13 00, 7211 14 00, 7211 19 00, ex 7225 19 10 (TARIC code 7225 19 10 90), 7225 30 90, ex 7225 40 60 (TARIC code 7225 40 60 90), 7225 40 90, ex 7226 19 10 (TARIC code 7226 19 10 90), 7226 91 91 and 7226 91 99.

Does not include :
  • products of stainless steel and grain-oriented silicon electrical steel;
  • products of tool steel and high-speed steel;
  • products, not in coils, without patterns in relief, of a thickness exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 600 mm or more; and
  • products, not in coils, without patterns in relief, of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 2 050 mm or more
(b) Rate of duty : Definitive countervailing duty :
  • 35.9% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 4.6% to 31.5%)
Revised rate of definitive anti-dumping duty :
  • 0% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 0% to 31.3%)
(c) Effective date : 10 June 2017

3.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5350.

Yours faithfully,

(Y K SO)
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.

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.
Note 2 The biweekly newsletter "Regulatory 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. It is available at:
http://economists-pick-research.hktdc.com/business-news/subindex/en/Regulatory-Alert-EU/1X2ZT68A/1/0.htm.