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

26 March 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 228/2015

European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a Provisional Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Stainless Steel Cold-rolled Flat Products Originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circulars Nos. 616/2014 of 27 June 2014, 751/2014 of 15 August 2014 and 1065/2014 of 17 December 2014, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China. The regulation can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/ EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2015_079_R_0006&from=EN.

DETAILS

2.Salient points are set out below-

(a) Product	:	Flat-rolled products of stainless steel, not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-reduced), currently falling within CN codes 7219 31 00, 7219 32 10, 7219 32 90, 7219 33 10, 7219 33 90, 7219 34 10, 7219 34 90, 7219 35 10, 7219 35 90, 7220 20 21, 7220 20 29, 7220 20 41, 7220 20 49, 7220 20 81 and 7220 20 89.
(b) Rate of Duty	:	25.2% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies whose individual duty rates range from 24.3% to 25.2%).
(c) Effective Date	:	26 March 2015 (the duty will apply for 6 months)
(d) Collection of Duty	:	The release for free circulation in the Union of the product shall be subject to the provision of a security, equivalent to the amount of the provisional duty.
(e) Time Limit for Comments	:	Interested parties may request disclosure of the essential facts and considerations on the basis of which the Regulation was adopted, make their views known in writing and apply to be heard by the Commission within 25 days from 26 March 2015.

OTHER INFORMATION

3.The Commission has initiated a countervailing proceeding on imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products originating in the Mainland of China. For details, please refer to Commercial Information Circulars No. 751/2014 of 15 August 2014.

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, 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.