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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
14 April 2023
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 273/2023
European Union (EU)* : Result of expiry review of the anti-dumping measure on sodium gluconate originating in the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 86/2022 of 24 January 2022, the European Commission published an Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/752 on 13 April 2023 to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of sodium gluconate originating in 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:32023R0752&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Dry sodium gluconate, with a Customs Union and Statistics (CUS) number 0023277-9 and a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number 527-07-1, currently falling under CN code ex 2918 16 00 (TARIC code 2918 16 00 10) and originating in the Mainland of China |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 53.2% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for two companies whose individual duty rates are 5.6% and 27.1%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 14 April 2023 |
3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact ZHENG Jingmin, Director of Trade Remedy and Industry Injury Investigation Division under the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, at 86 20 3881 9797. 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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