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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
6 August 2025
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 475/2025 of 6 June 2025, the European Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1718 on 6 August 2025 to make imports of 1,4-Butanediol originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China currently under the anti-dumping investigation subject to registration. The Implementing Regulation is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202501718.
2.The product concerned is 1,4-Butanediol usually falling under the Chemical Abstracts Service’s registration number 110-63-4 and usually classified in the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances under EC-number 203-786-5, and currently classified under CN codes 2905 39 26 and 2905 39 28.
3.The Implementing Regulation will enter into force on 7 August 2025. For further details, please refer to the above Implementing Regulation.
4.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.
5.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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