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

16 February 2016

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 185/2016

European Union (EU)* : Impending expiry of anti-dumping measures on imports of hand pallet trucks and their essential parts originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 312/2013 of 24 April 2013, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a notice concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of hand pallet trucks and their essential parts originating in the Mainland of China. The notice can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52016XC0129(02)&from=EN

2.Unless a review is initiated in accordance with the procedure set out in the notice, the anti-dumping duty will expire at midnight of 14 October 2016.

3.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the product originating in the Mainland of China has been imposed since 22 July 2005. Consequent to a circumvention investigation, the anti-dumping duty has been extended to imports of the same product consigned from Thailand, whether declared as originating in Thailand or not. The duty in force is 70.8% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for two companies whose individual duty rates are 54.1% and 70.8%).

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.