Trade and Industry Department commercial Information Circular No. 518/2006

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

29 December 2006

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 518/2006

European Union (EU)* : Imposition of Provisional Anti-dumping Duty on Imports
of Certain Saddles Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 136/2006 of 7 April 2006, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain saddles originating in the Mainland of China. A copy of the regulation is at Annex (pdf format) for reference. Salient points are set out below -

(a) Product	:	Saddles and essential parts thereof i.e., bases, cushions and covers, of bicycles and other cycles (including delivery tricycles), not motorised, of cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor with or without sidecars, of fitness machines and of home trainers, falling within CN codes 8714 95 00, ex 8714 99 90 and ex 9506 91 10 (TARIC codes 8714 99 90 81 and 9506 91 10 10).
(b) Rate of Duty	:	30.9% of the net, free-at-Community-frontier price before duty (except for 5 companies whose individual duty rates range from 0% to 7.5%).
(c) Effective Date	:	29 December 2006 (the duty will apply for 6 months).
(d) Collection of Duty	:	The release of the product for free circulation in the Community 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 29 December 2006.

ENQUIRIES

For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5350.

Yours faithfully,

(Bill WONG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Bulgaria and Romania will join the EU on 1 January 2007.

Electronic services for Production Notification and Certificate of Origin enable traders to make the relevant applications directly through their office computer faster and easier. Electronic service has now been extended to the submission of Cargo Manifests and Textiles Notifications. For details and enquiries,
please call the following service providers:

Global e-Trading Services Limited (Tel. : 8109 1820)
Tradelink Electronic Commerce Limited (Tel. : 2599 1700)

Note : 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.