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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
29 July 2019
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 572/2019
European Union (EU)* : Results of expiry review of anti-dumping measures on tungsten electrodes originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 540/2018 of 1 June 2018, the European Commission has published an implementing regulation to maintain the definitive anti dumping duty imposed on imports of tungsten electrodes originating in the Mainland of China following the expiry review. The regulation is available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32019R1267&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Tungsten welding electrodes, including tungsten bars and rods for welding electrodes, containing 94 % or more by weight of tungsten, other than those obtained simply by sintering, whether or not cut to length, currently falling under CN codes ex 8101 99 10 and ex 8515 90 80 (TARIC codes 8101 99 10 10 and 8515 90 80 10) |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 63.5% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 17.0% to 41.0%) |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 30 July 2019 |
| (d) Duration | : | 5 years |
3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact Li Xuefei, Director of Trade Remedy and Industry Injury Investigation Division under the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, at 8620 3881 6201. The Division is responsible for, among others, guiding and coordinating enterprises in Guangdong Province in responding to anti-dumping investigations against products from the province.
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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