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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
14 January 2025
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 745/2020 of 12 October 2020, the European Commission published notice C/2025/302 on 14 January 2025 concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of certain polyvinyl alcohols originating in the Mainland of China. The notice is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202500302.
2.The product concerned is polyvinyl alcohol, whether or not containing unhydrolysed acetate groups, in the form of homopolymer resins with a viscosity (measured in 4% aqueous solution at 20°C) of 3mPa·s or more but not more than 61mPa·s and a degree of hydrolysis of 80.0 mol% or more but not more than 99.9 mol%, both measured according to the ISO 15023-2 method, currently falling under CN code ex 3905 30 00 (TARIC code 3905 30 00 91). Unless a review is initiated in accordance with the procedure set out in the notice, the anti-dumping measures will expire at midnight of 30 September 2025.
3.Definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of the product originating in the Mainland of China have been imposed since 30 September 2020. The current rate of anti-dumping duty is 72.9% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rate from 17.3% to 72.9%).
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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