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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
14 February 2025
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 878/2024 of 25 October 2024, the European Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/291 on 14 February 2025 to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of decor paper originating in the Mainland of China. The Implementing Regulation is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202500291.
2.Salient points of the Regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Decor paper with the following characteristics: weighing 30-150 g/m2; having an ash content between 5% and 50%; having a Klemm absorbency of at least 12 millimetres per 10 minutes or a resin pick-up of 20% to 200%; having a wet tensile strength of 6 to 12 Newton (N) per 15 millimetres; having a Gurley porosity of 3 to 80 seconds per 100 millilitres; having a smoothness of 20 to 300 according to the Bekk method; in reels with a width up to 300 centimetres whether or not pre-impregnated with a combination of latices or natural binders (like starch); excluding wallpaper and similar wallcoverings; excluding papers saturated with water-based melamine, urea, phenol or any thermosetting, thermoplastic resin solutions, currently falling under CN codes ex 4802 54 00, ex 4802 55, ex 4805 91 00 and ex 4811 60 00 (TARIC codes 4802 54 00 10, 4802 55 15 10, 4802 55 25 10, 4802 55 30 10, 4802 55 90 10, 4805 91 00 10, and 4811 60 00 10). |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 34.9% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 31.0% to 33.6%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 15 February 2025 |
| (d) Collection of duty | : | The release for free circulation in the EU of the product shall be subject to the provision of a security deposit equivalent to the amount of the provisional duty. |
3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact ZHENG Jingmin, Director of Trade Remedy and Industry Injury Investigation Division under the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, at 86 20 3881 9797. 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 Jenny MOK)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
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