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

30 December 2019

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 945/2019

European Union (EU)* : Initiation of an investigation concerning possible circumvention of anti-dumping measures on tungsten electrodes originating in the Mainland of China by imports of tungsten electrodes consigned from India, Laos and Thailand and making such imports subject to registration

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 572/2019 of 29 July 2019, the European Commission published an implementing regulation (EU) 2019/2171 on 19 December 2019 announcing the initiation of an investigation concerning possible circumvention of anti-dumping measures imposed on imports of tungsten electrodes originating in the Mainland of China by imports of tungsten electrodes consigned from India, Laos and Thailand, whether declared as originating in India, Laos and Thailand or not and to make such imports subject to registration.  The implementing regulation is available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32019R2171&from=EN.

2.The product subject to investigation is 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 11, 8101 99 10 12, 8101 99 10 13, 8515 90 80 11, 8515 90 80 12 and 8515 90 80 13) consigned from India, Laos and Thailand, whether declared as originating in India, Laos and Thailand or not.  For further details of the proceeding of this investigation, please refer to the above implementing regulation.

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 86 20 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,

(Miss Ronnie CHUI)
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.