Commercial Information Circular
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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
6 July 2020
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 525/2020
European Union (EU)* : Results of expiry review of anti-dumping measures on ferro-silicon originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 258/2019 of 3 April 2019, the European Commission published an implementing regulation (EU) 2020/909 on 1 July 2020 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of ferro-silicon originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China following the expiry review. The implementing regulation is available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32020R0909&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Ferro-silicon, currently falling under CN codes 7202 21 00, 7202 29 10 and 7202 29 90 |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 31.2% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 15.6% to 29.0%) |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 2 July 2020 |
| (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 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 comprises of 27 member countries, namely, 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 and Sweden. The United Kingdom (UK) withdrew from the EU with effect from 31 January 2020, and has entered an implementation period which is due to last until 31 December 2020. During the implementation period, the EU law will continue to apply in the UK generally.
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