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Ref : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
1 February 2016
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 137/2016
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of high fatigue performance steel concrete reinforcement bars originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 329/2015 of 13 May 2015, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of high fatigue performance steel concrete reinforcement bars (HFP rebars) 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=CELEX:32016R0113&from=EN
DETAILS
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below-
| (a) Product | : |
High fatigue performance iron or steel concrete reinforcing bars and rods made of iron, non-alloy steel or alloy steel (but excluding of stainless steel, high-speed steel and silico-manganese steel), not further worked than hot-rolled, but including those twisted after rolling; these bars and rods contain indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or are twisted after rolling; the key characteristic of high fatigue performance is the ability to endure repeated stress without breaking and, specifically, the ability to resist in excess of 4.5 million fatigue cycles using a stress ratio (min/max) of 0.2 and a stress range exceeding 150 MPa, currently falling within CN codes ex 7214 20 00, ex 7228 30 20, ex 7228 30 41, ex 7228 30 49, ex 7228 30 61, ex 7228 30 69, ex 7228 30 70 and ex 7228 30 89 (TARIC codes 7214 20 00 10, 7228 30 20 10, 7228 30 41 10, 7228 30 49 10, 7228 30 61 10, 7228 30 69 10, 7228 30 70 10 and 7228 30 89 10)
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| (b) Rate of Duty | : |
13% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 9.2% to 13%)
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| (c) Effective Date | : | 30 January 2016 (the duty will apply for six months) |
| (d) Collection of Duty | : |
The release for free circulation in the EU 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 request to be heard by the Commission and/or the Hearing Officer within 25 days from 30 January 2016
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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 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.
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| Note 2: |
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