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

16 December 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 1003/2013

European Union (EU) * : Impending Expiry of Anti-dumping Measures on Imports of Tube and Pipe Fittings of Iron or Steel Originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 455/2009 of 4 September 2009, the European Commission has published a notice concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of tube and pipe fittings of iron or steel 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:2013:366:0035:0035:EN:PDF.

DETAILS

2.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain tube or pipe fittings of iron or steel originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China was first imposed on 4 April 1996. Consequent to an expiry review, the duty was extended for a five-year period from 7 June 2003. As a consequence of separate circumvention investigations, the definitive anti-dumping duty has been extended to imports of the same products consigned from (i) Chinese Taipei, (ii) Indonesia or Sri Lanka, and (iii) the Philippines, whether declared as originating in Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Sri Lanka or the Philippines or not.

3.Following another expiry review initiated in June 2008, the definitive anti-dumping duty, as extended to imports of the same products consigned from Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, has been maintained for five-year period with effect from 5 September 2009. The current rate of duty is 58.6% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty.

4.Unless a review is initiated in accordance with the procedure set out in section 2 of the notice, the anti-dumping duty will expire at mid-night of 5 September 2014.

ENQUIRIES

5.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, Croatia, 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.