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Ref : EIC 230/5/4/10

27 January 2010

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 45/2010

European Union (EU)* : Tariff Quota on Imports of Garlic Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circulars No. 462/2009 of 8 September 2009, we have received information concerning the issue of import licenses by the European Commission (the Commission) for garlic originated in the Mainland of China. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EU) No. 1189/2009 (the Regulation), which can be accessed through the following link :
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:318:0048:0049:EN:PDF

DETAILS

2. Commercial Information Circular No. 188/2007 of 27 April 2007 informed the trade, among the others, of the Commission's rules for managing tariff quota^＃for garlic (CN code 0703 2000) originating in the Mainland of China. Since the applications lodged during the first five working days following 15 November 2009 already exceeded the available quantities of tariff quota, the Commission has enacted the Regulation announcing that import license applications for garlic originating in the Mainland of China lodged during the first five working days following 15 November 2009 and sent to the Commission by the end of November 2009 shall be issued at the rate of 19.578768% and 0.426832% of the applied quantities for traditional importers and new importers respectively.

ENQUIRIES

3. For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Peggy LEUNG)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, 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.

^＃ The tariff quota allows garlic to be imported into the EU at reduced duty rate up to the quota limit. The normal duty rate will resume when imports reach the quota limit.