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Ref : EIC 413/3

9 May 2014

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 423/2014

Brazil : Preliminary Determination of Anti-dumping Investigation against Certain Steel Tube Originating in the Mainland of China

The Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) of Brazil issued a Resolution No. 30/2014 on 11 April 2014 announcing its preliminary determination that for a period of six months, certain seamless steel tube mixed with chromium, with a nominal external diameter between 3mm and 141.3 mm, regardless of wall thickness and internal diameter, classified under Southern Common Market (Mercosur¹) Common Classification (NCM) codes 7304.51.19, 7304.59.11 and 7304.59.19 originating in the Mainland of China will be subject to a provisional anti-dumping (AD) duty of US$759.56 to US$811.13 per tonne for certain Mainland companies. Imports from other Mainland suppliers will be subject to an AD duty of US$811.13 per tonne. The Brazilian Resolution (in Portuguese) is available at: http://www.camex.gov.br/legislacao/interna/id/1210.

ENQUIRIES

2.For traders involved in the export of the subject product in the Guangdong Province, please contact Zhang Ping, Director of the Bureau of Fair Trade for Import and Export under the Guangdong Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, at 8620 3881 9932. The Bureau is responsible for, among others, conducting antidumping investigations, and guiding and coordinating enterprises in the Guangdong province in responding to antidumping investigations against products from the Guangdong Province.

3.For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact Mr Lewis LAU at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Cindy CHENG)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry

^1. The Southern Common Market (Mercosur) includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.