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Ref : EIC 111/3/10/1

30 May 2014

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 522/2014

US : Anti-dumping Action against Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from the Mainland of China : Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) announced in the Federal Register (FR) notice of 22 May 2014 its preliminary determination that non-oriented electrical steel from the Mainland of China was being, or was likely to be, sold in the US at less than fair value. The DoC preliminarily assigned the China-wide entity a rate of 407.52%. The FR notice is available at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-05-22/pdf/2014-11900.pdf.

2.On 6 December 2013, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) published its preliminary determination that there was a reasonable indication that an industry in the US was materially injured by reason of imports of non-oriented electrical steel from the Mainland of China. If the final determination of the DoC is affirmative, the ITC will make its final determination on whether the domestic industry in the US is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by reason of the subject imports within 45 days after the DoC's final determination.

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3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product(s) in the Guangdong Province, please contact Zhang Ping, Director of Trade Remedy Division under the Guangdong Department of Commerce at 8620 3881 9936. The Division 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.

4.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