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Ref.: EIC 230/2/3/2/13
3 February 2017
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 94/2017
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain stainless steel tube and pipe butt-welding fittings, whether or not finished, originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circulars No. 1013/2015 of 3 November 2015 and No. 191/2016 of 22 February 2016, the European Commission has published an implementing regulation to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain stainless steel tube and pipe butt-welding fittings, whether or not finished, originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China. The regulation is available at:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0141&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Tube and pipe butt-welding fittings, of austenitic stainless steel grades, corresponding to AISI types 304, 304L, 316, 316L, 316Ti, 321 and 321H and their equivalent in the other norms, with a greatest external diameter not exceeding 406.4 mm and a wall thickness of 16 mm or less, with a roughness average (Ra) of the surface finish not less than 0.8 micrometres, not flanged, whether or not finished, currently falling within CN codes ex 7307 23 10 and ex 7307 23 90 (TARIC codes 7307 23 10 15, 7307 23 10 25, 7307 23 90 15, 7307 23 90 25) |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 64.9% on the CIF Union border price, customs duty unpaid (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 30.7% to 55.3% ) |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 28 January 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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