European Union (EU)* : Imposition and suspension of the definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of aluminium flat-rolled products originating in the Mainland of China

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

11 October 2021

Dear Sirs,

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 237/2021 of 12 April 2021, the European Commission (the Commission) published an Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1784 on 11 October 2021 to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of aluminium flat-rolled products originating in the Mainland of China. The Implementing Regulation is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021R1784&from=EN.

2.Having determined that the imposition of anti-dumping duties was warranted, the Commission further examined whether the suspension of the anti-dumping measures imposed on the product concerned would be warranted in view of the conditions under Article 14(4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Union, which provides that, in the Union interest, anti-dumping measures may be suspended where market conditions have temporarily changed to an extent that injury would be unlikely to resume as a result of such suspension.

3.The Commission concluded that it is in the EU interest that the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1784 on imports of aluminium flat-rolled products originating in the Mainland of China be suspended for a period of nine months, given the temporary nature of the change in market conditions concerning demand and supply, and in particular the current imbalance between demand and supply on the EU market; and published an Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1788 on 11 October 2021 to suspend the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1784. The Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1788 is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021D1788&from=EN.

4.Salient points of the two regulations are set out below -

(a) Product	:	Aluminium products, flat rolled, whether or not alloyed, whether or not further worked than flat rolled, not backed, without internal layers of other material, in coils or in coiled strips, in cut-to-length sheets, or in the form of circles; of a thickness of 0.2 mm or more but not more than 6 mm, in plates, of a thickness of more than 6 mm, in coils or in coiled strips, of a thickness of not less than 0.03 mm but less than 0.2 mm currently falling under CN codes ex 7606 11 10 (TARIC codes 7606 11 10 25, 7606 11 10 86), ex 7606 11 91 (TARIC codes 7606 11 91 25, 7606 11 91 86), ex 7606 11 93 (TARIC codes 7606 11 93 25, 7606 11 93 86), ex 7606 11 99 (TARIC codes 7606 11 99 25, 7606 11 99 86), ex 7606 12 20 (TARIC codes 7606 12 20 25, 7606 12 20 88), ex 7606 12 92 (TARIC codes 7606 12 92 25, 7606 12 92 93), ex 7606 12 93 (TARIC code 7606 12 93 86), ex 7606 12 99 (TARIC codes 7606 12 99 25 and 7606 12 99 86), ex 7606 91 00 (TARIC codes 7606 91 00 25, 7606 91 00 86), ex 7606 92 00 (TARIC codes 7606 92 00 25, 7606 92 00 92), ex 7607 11 90 (TARIC codes 7607 11 90 48, 7607 11 90 51, 7607 11 90 53, 7607 11 90 65, 7607 11 90 73, 7607 11 90 75, 7607 11 90 77, 7607 11 90 91, 7607 11 90 93) and ex 7607 19 90 (TARIC codes 7607 19 90 75, 7607 19 90 94).
(b) Rate of duty	:	24.6% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 14.3% to 21.4%).
(c) Effective date	:	12 October 2021  (Suspended for a period of nine months) (Should the situation which led to the suspension change subsequently, the Commission may repeal the suspension of the anti-dumping measures forthwith.)
(d) Collection of duty	:	The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/582 shall not be collected.

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

Yours faithfully,



(Miss Serena YUEN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

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