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

9 March 2016

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 248/2016

European Union (EU)* : Modification of the name of a company subject to individual anti-dumping duty rate and individual countervailing duty rate concerning imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules or panels and cells (which have a thickness not exceeding 400 micrometres) of the type used in crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules or panelsoriginating in or consigned from the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circulars Nos. 970/2013 and 971/2013 of 5 December 2013, the European Commission (the Commission) has published two notices concerning the modification of the name of a company subject to an individual anti-dumping duty rate and an individual countervailing duty rate concerning imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules or panels and cells (which have a thickness not exceeding 400 micrometres) of the type used in crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules or panels originating in or consigned from the Mainland of China. The notices can be accessed through the following links:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52016XC0308(01)&from=EN
and
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52016XC0308(02)&from=EN

2.The company concerned notified the Commission of its change of name. The Commission had examined the information supplied and concluded that the change of name in no way affects the individual duty rate applicable to the company.

BACKGROUND

3.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the product has been imposed since 6 December 2013 and the duty in force is 53.4% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates ranging from 27.3% to 64.9%). Apart from the definitive anti-dumping duty, the Council has also imposed a definitive countervailing duty on imports of the product since 6 December 2013 and the duty in force is 11.5% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates ranging from 0.0% to 11.5%).

4.The Commission also accepted an undertaking offered by a group of cooperating exporting producers in the Mainland of China, including their related companies in the Mainland of China and in the EU, and together with the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products, in connection with the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy proceedings concerning imports of the product originating in or consigned from the Mainland of China.

5.Separately, the Commission has initiated a partial interim review and expiry review of the anti-dumping and countervailing measures in December 2015. Consequent to a circumvention investigation, the definitive anti-dumping dutyand countervailing duty have been extended with effect from 13 February 2016 to imports of the same products consigned from Malaysia and Taiwan, regardless of whether they are declared as originating in Malaysia and in Taiwan or not. For details, please refer to Commercial Information Circulars Nos. 1163/2015, 1164/2015 and 1167/2015 of 8 December 2015 and 174/2016, 175/2016 of 15 February 2016.

ENQUIRIES

6.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.