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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
8 October 2025
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 1051/2024 of 19 December 2024, the European Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1981 on 8 October 2025 to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware originating in Chinese Mainland following the expiry review. The Implementing Regulation is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202501981.
2.Salient points of the Regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Ceramic tableware and kitchenware, excluding ceramic condiment or spice mills and their ceramic grinding parts, ceramic coffee mills, ceramic knife sharpeners, ceramic sharpeners, ceramic kitchen tools to be used for cutting, grinding, grating, slicing, scraping and peeling, and cordierite ceramic pizza-stones of a kind used for baking pizza or bread, currently falling under CN codes ex 6911 10 00, ex 6912 00 21, ex 6912 00 23, ex 6912 00 25 and ex 6912 00 29 (TARIC codes 6911 10 00 90, 6912 00 21 11, 6912 00 21 91, 6912 00 23 10, 6912 00 25 10 and 6912 00 29 10) |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 36.1% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 13.1% to 18.3%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 9 October 2025 |
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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