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Ref : EIC 413/3

2 December 2016

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 891/2016

Brazil : Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation against Certain Types of Steel Originating in the Mainland of China

The Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) of Brazil issued Circular No. 69/2016 on 21 November 2016 announcing its initiation of countervailing (CV) duty investigation against certain types of flat-rolled products of alloy or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or greater, hot-rolled, in plates of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm or coils of any thickness, classified under Southern Common Market (Mercosur1) Common Classification (NCM) codes 7208.10.00, 7208.25.00, 7208.26.10, 7208.26.90, 7208.27.10, 7208.27.90, 7208.36.10, 7208.36.90, 7208.37.00, 7208.38.10, 7208.38.90, 7208.39.10, 7208.39.90, 7208.40.00, 7208.53.00, 7208.54.00, 7208.90.00, 7225.30.00 and 7225.40.90 originating in the Mainland of China. The Brazilian Circular (in Portuguese) is available at: http://www.mdic.gov.br/images/REPOSITORIO/secex/gab/circulares_secex_2016/circ_secex_069_2016.pdf.

ENQUIRIES

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

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Lydia CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

1 The Southern Common Market (Mercosur) includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. Membership of Venezuela has been temporarily suspended since 2 December 2016.

Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.