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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
23 January 2026
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 998/2025 of 19 November 2025, the European Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/142 on 23 January 2026 to make imports of robot lawn mowers originating in Chinese Mainland 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_202600142.
2.The product concerned is electric robot mowers, capable of cutting grass (for example, in lawns, parks and sports grounds), without direct human control, whether or not including the secondary equipment necessary to their functioning (a charging station and, in most cases, ancillary materials or equipment necessary for the proper navigation of the robot lawn mower, e.g., a boundary wire or a wireless alternative thereto), currently classified under CN code ex 8433 11 10 (TARIC code 8433 11 10 10).
3.The Implementing Regulation will enter into force on 24 January 2026. 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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