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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
15 May 2019
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 374/2019
European Union (EU)* : Impending expiry of anti-dumping measures on monosodium glutamate originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 88/2015 of 23 January 2015, the European Commission has published a notice concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of monosodium glutamate originating in the Mainland of China. The notice is available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52019XC0514(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 23 January 2020.
3.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the product originating in the Mainland of China has been imposed since 3 December 2008. The current rate of anti-dumping duty is 39.7% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for two companies whose individual duty rates are 33.8% and 36.5%).
4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Manus LUI)
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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