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Ref : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
22 May 2015
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 429/2015
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of acesulfame potassium originating in the Mainland of China as well as acesulfame potassium originating in the Mainland of China contained in certain preparations and/or mixtures
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 809/2014 of 5 September 2014, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of acesulfame potassium originating in the Mainland of China as well as acesulfame potassium originating in the Mainland of China contained in certain preparations and/or mixtures. The regulation can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2015_125_R_0004&from=EN.
DETAILS
2. Salient points are set out below -
| (a) Product | : |
Acesulfame potassium (potassium salt of 6-methyl- 1,2,3-oxathiazin-4(3H)-one 2,2-dioxide; CAS RN 55589-62-3) originating in the Mainland of China as well as acesulfame potassium originating in the Mainland of China contained in certain preparations and/or mixtures, currently falling within CN codes ex 2106 90 92, ex 2106 90 98, ex 2934 99 90 (TARIC code 2934 99 90 21), ex 3824 90 92, ex 3824 90 93 and ex 3824 90 96
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| (b) Rate of Duty | : |
EUR 3.19 per kg net product weight (except for a number of companies whose applicable amounts of duty ranging from EUR 1.23 to EUR 3.19 per kg net product weight)
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| (c) Effective Date | : | 22 May 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
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| (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 22 May 2015
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ENQUIRIES
3.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.
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