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

16 April 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 264/2015

European Union (EU)* : Amendment to the Council Implementing Regulation Imposing a Definitive Anti-dumping Duty and Collecting Definitively the Provisional Duty Imposed on Imports of Solar Glass Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular Nos. 450/2014 and 451/2014 of 15 May2014, the European Commission (the Commission) has published an implementing regulation to amend the Commission Implementing Regulation (the original Regulation) imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of solar glass originating in 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_098_R_0004&from= EN.

DETAILS

2.According to the Regulation, three of the cooperating non-sampled companies, which cooperated in the anti-dumping investigation, did not cooperate in the parallel anti-subsidy investigation. For that reason their definitive anti-subsidy duty rate was determined at 17.1%. It follows that the individual dumping duty rates for these three companies should be adjusted to 19.4%.

3.The Regulation shall enter into force on 16 April 2015 and apply retroactively from 15 May 2014.

BACKGROUND

4.The Commission adopted the original Regulation imposing definitive anti-dumping duty and an implementing regulation imposing definitive countervailing duty on solar glass originated in the Mainland of China in May 2014. The injury elimination level applicable to "cooperating non-sampled companies" was determined at 36.5%. Pursuant to the original Regulation, in parallel investigations where the subsidy margins are lower than the injury elimination level, the definitive anti-dumping duty should be imposed up to the relevant injury elimination level.

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.