Commercial Information Circular
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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
17 February 2022
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 140/2022
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain iron or steel fasteners originating in the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circulars No. 909/2020 of 22 December 2020 and No. 412/2021 of 18 June 2021, the European Commission published an Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/191 on 17 February 2022 to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain iron or steel fasteners originating in the Mainland of China. The Implementing Regulation is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022R0191&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Certain fasteners of iron or steel, other than of stainless steel, i.e. wood screws (excluding coach screws), self-tapping screws, other screws and bolts with heads (whether or not with their nuts or washers, but excluding screws and bolts for fixing railway track construction material), and washers, currently classified under CN codes 7318 12 90, 7318 14 91, 7318 14 99, 7318 15 58, 7318 15 68, 7318 15 82, 7318 15 88, ex 7318 15 95 (TARIC codes 7318 15 95 19 and 7318 15 95 89), ex 7318 21 00 (TARIC codes 7318 21 00 31, 7318 21 00 39, 7318 21 00 95 and 7318 21 00 98) and ex 7318 22 00 (TARIC codes 7318 22 00 31, 7318 22 00 39, 7318 22 00 95 and 7318 22 00 98) |
| (b) Rate of Duty | : | 86.5% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 22.1% to 48.8%) |
| (c) Effective Date | : | 18 February 2022 |
3.The registration of imports of certain iron or steel fasteners originating in the Mainland of China established is hereby discontinued.
4.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact GONG Zhihong, 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.
5.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Tracy MAK)
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.
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