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

28 August 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 848/2015

European Union (EU) * : Imposition of a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 228/2015 of 26 March 2015, the European Commission (the Commission) has published an implementing regulation to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China. The notice can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2015_224_R_0002&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	:	25.3% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies whose individual duty rates range from 24.4% to 25.3%).
(c) Effective Date	:	28 August 2015
(d) Duration	:	5 years
(e) Collection of Duty	:	The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty imposed by the Commission with effect from 26 March 2015 shall be definitively collected. The amounts secured in excess of the definitive rate of anti-dumping duties adopted by the Commission shall be released.

OTHER INFORMATION

3.The Commission has terminated the countervailing proceeding on the products concerned originating in the Mainland of China and repealed the regulation making these imports originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China, subject to registration. For details, please refer to Commercial Information Circular No. 696/2015 of 27 July 2015.

ENQUIRIES

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.