Commercial Information Circular

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

19 December 2016

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 949/2016

European Union (EU)* : Impending expiry of anti-dumping measures on imports of lever arch mechanisms originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 700/2012 of 4 September 2012, the European Commission has published a notice concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of lever arch mechanisms (the product) originating in the Mainland of China.  The notice is available at:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOC_2016_466_R_0011&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 5 September 2017.

3.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the product originating in the Mainland of China has been imposed since 28 July 2006 at a rate of 47.4% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for one company whose individual duty rate is 27.1%).  As a result of a previous expiry review, the duty has been maintained for another five years with effect from 5 September 2012.

4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 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.