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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
18 January 2022
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 65/2022
European Union (EU)* : Result of expiry review of the anti-dumping measure on certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 301/2020 of 9 April 2020, the European Commission published an Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/58 on 17 January 2022 to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel 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:32022R0058&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel, of a thickness of more than 0.16 mm, currently falling under CN codes ex 7225 11 00 (TARIC codes 7225 11 00 11, 7225 11 00 15 and 7225 11 00 19) and ex 7226 11 00 (TARIC codes 7226 11 00 12, 7226 11 00 14, 7226 11 00 16, 7226 11 00 92, 7226 11 00 94 and 7226 11 00 96), originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 36.6% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a company with individual duty rate set at 21.5%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 18 January 2022 |
3.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.
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.
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