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

21 May 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 424/2015

European Union (EU)* : Amendment to council implementing regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed 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 an implementing regulation to amend the Council Implementing Regulation (the original Regulation) imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of ceramic tiles originating in the Mainland of China, by adding a company to the list of cooperating producers attributed a 30.6% duty. The implementing regulation can be accessed through the following link: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2015_124_R_0003&from=EN.

DETAILS

2. An exporter producer from the Mainland of China claimed, with a questionnaire reply and supporting evidence, that it should be granted the duty applicable to cooperating producers, i.e. 30.6%. Having examined the evidence, the Commission concluded that the producer fulfilled the criteria in the original Regulation and should therefore be attributed the duty of 30.6%.

3. The amending implementing regulation shall enter into force on 21 May 2015.

BACKGROUND

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

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 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.