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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
22 April 2025
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 880/2024 of 25 October 2024, the European Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/780 on 22 April 2025 to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of steel track shoes 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_202500780.
2.Salient points of the Regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Certain types of steel shoes, with or without rubber pads attached thereto, whether or not assembled in a track chain, with a maximum length of 3 000 mm, used on machines currently falling under headings 8426, 8429 or 8430, or conveyor belts currently falling under heading 8428, currently classified under CN codes ex 8431 39 00, ex 8431 49 20 and ex 8431 49 80 (TARIC codes 8431 39 00 21, 8431 39 00 25, 8431 39 00 26, 8431 39 00 29, 8431 49 20 11, 8431 49 20 15, 8431 49 20 16, 8431 49 20 19, 8431 49 80 11, 8431 49 80 15, 8431 49 80 16 and 8431 49 80 19). |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 62.5% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty |
| (c) Effective date | : | 23 April 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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