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

23 January 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 88/2015

European Union (EU) * : Results of an Expiry Review of the Anti-dumping Measures on Imports of Monosodium Glutamate Originating in the Mainland of China

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No.954/2013 of 29 November 2013, the European Commission has published an implementing regulation to maintain the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of monosodium glutamate originating in the Mainland of China following an expiry review.The implementing regulation can be accessed through the following link :
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2015_015_R_0003&from=EN.

DETAILS

2.Salient points are set out below:

(a) Product	:	Monosodium glutamate, currently falling within CN code ex 2922 42 00 (TARIC code 2922 42 00 10)
(b) Rate of Duty	:	39.7% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for two companies whose individual duty rates are 33.8% and 36.5%)
(c) Effective Date	:	23 January 2015
(d) Duration	:	5 years

BACKGROUND

3.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of monosodium glutamate originating in the Mainland of China has been imposed since 3 December 2008 and the duty in force is 39.7% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for two companies whose individual duty rates are 33.8% and 36.5%). On 29 November 2013, the European Commission initiated an expiry review.

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.