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

7 March 2022

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 181/2022

European Union (EU)* : Impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of hand pallet trucks originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 1138/2017 of 13 December 2017, the European Commission published a notice 2022/C 104/07 on 4 March 2022 concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of hand pallet trucks originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China. The notice is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOC_2022_104_R_0007&from=EN.

2.The product concerned is hand pallet trucks and their essential parts, i.e. chassis and hydraulics, currently falling within CN codes ex 8427 90 00 (TARIC codes 8427 90 00 11, 8427 90 00 13 and 8427 90 00 19) and ex 8431 20 00 (TARIC codes 8431 20 00 11, 8431 20 00 13 and 8431 20 00 19) as extended to the same product but presented at import with a so-called 'weight indication system' consisting of a weighing mechanism not integrated in the chassis, that is to say not integrated in the forks, currently falling within TARIC codes 8427 90 00 30 and 8431 20 00 50. Unless a review is initiated in accordance with the procedure set out in the notice, the anti-dumping measures will expire at midnight of 1 December 2022.

3.Definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of the product originating in the Mainland of China have been imposed since 22 July 2005. The current rate of anti-dumping duty is 70.8% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 54.1% to 70.8%).

4.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.