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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13

12 December 2012

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 1051/2012

European Union (EU)* : Notice of Expiry of Anti-dumping Measures on Imports of Gas-fuelled, Non-refillable Pocket Flint Lighters and Certain Refillable Pocket Flint Lighters Originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 314/2012 of 2 May 2012 and 486/2012 of 26 June 2012, the European Commission has published a notice to announce the expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of gas-fuelled, non-refillable pocket flint lighters and certain refillable pocket flint lighters originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China. The notice can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2012:382:0012:0012:EN:PDF

DETAILS

2.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of gas-fuelled, non-refillable pocket flint lighters originating in the Mainland of China has been imposed since 29 November 1991 at a rate of 16.9%. Subsequently, the Council of the EU revised the definitive anti-dumping duty rate to EUR 0.065 per lighter on 5 May 1995 consequent to a review. Following an anti-circumvention investigation, such anti-dumping duty has since 30 January 1999 been extended to (a) gas-fuelled, non-refillable pocket flint lighters consigned from or originating in Chinese Taipei; and (b) certain gas-fuelled, refillable pocket flint lighters originating in the Mainland of China or consigned from or originating in Chinese Taipei. Subsequent to an expiry review, the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed on the products concerned was extended for another five years starting from 19 September 2001. Following another expiry review initiated in September 2006, the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed on the products concerned has been maintained for a further five years starting from 13 December 2007.

3.In the absence of duly substantiated request for further expiry review, the anti-dumping duty on the products concerned will expire at midnight of 13 December 2012.

ENQUIRIES

4.For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5684.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Stella CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.