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Ref : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
12 October 2016
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 796/2016
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain heavy plate of non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 662/2016 of 11 August 2016, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain heavy plate of non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the Mainland of China. The regulation is available at:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R1777&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below-
| (a) Product | : | Flat products of non-alloy or alloy steel (excluding stainless steel, silicon- electrical steel, tool steel and high-speed steel), hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated, not in coils, of a thickness exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 600 mm or more or of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 2 050 mm or more currently falling within CN codes ex 7208 51 20, ex 7208 51 91, ex 7208 51 98, ex 7208 52 91, ex 7208 90 20, ex 7208 90 80, 7225 40 40, ex 7225 40 60 and ex 7225 99 00 (TARIC codes: 7208 51 20 10, 7208 51 91 10, 7208 51 98 10, 7208 52 91 10, 7208 90 20 10, 7208 90 80 20, 7225 40 60 10, 7225 99 00 30) |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 73.7% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 65.1% to 73.7%) |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 8 October 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 deposit equivalent to the amount of the provisional duty |
| (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, or request to be heard by the Commission and/or the Hearing Officer within 25 days from 8 October 2016 |
3. For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5350.
Yours faithfully,
(Y K So)
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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