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

21 December 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 1208/2015

European Union (EU) * : Impending expiry of anti-dumping measures on imports of ceramic tiles originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 553/2011 of 15 September 2011, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a notice concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of ceramic tiles originating in the Mainland of China.  The notice can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52015XC1218(04)&from=EN

2.Unless a review is initiated in accordance with the procedure set out in the notice, the anti-dumping duty will expire at midnight of 16 September 2016.

3.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of ceramic tiles originating in the Mainland of China has been imposed since 16 September 2011.  The duty in force is 69.7% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 13.9% to 36.5%).

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

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Jessica MAK)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU member countries are 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.