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Ref : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
27 January 2006
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 40/2006
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a Definitive Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Tartaric Acid Originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 288/2005 of 2 August 2005, the Council of the EU has published a regulation to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of tartaric acid originating in the mainland of China. A copy of the regulation is at Attachment (pdf format) for reference. Salient points are set out below-
| (a) Product | : | Tartaric acid, falling within CN code 2918 12 00. |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 34.9% of the net, free-at-Community-frontier price before duty (except for three companies with individual duty ranging from 0% to 10.1%). |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 28 January 2006 |
| (d) Duration | : | Five years |
| (e) Collection of Provisional Duty | : | Amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty imposed since 30 July 2005 will be definitively collected at the rate of the definitive anti-dumping duty. Any amount secured in excess of the definitive duty rate will be released. |
ENQUIRIES
- For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5351.
Yours faithfully,
(Ricky CHENG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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