Commercial Information Circular
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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
9 August 2023
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 567/2023
European Union (EU)* : Amendment to Implementing Regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 961/2022 of 9 December 2022, the European Commission published another Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1617 on 9 August 2023 to amend the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2011 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in the Mainland of China following the reopening of absorption reinvestigation. The Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1617 is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2023_199_R_0005.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Single mode optical fibre cables, made up of one or more individually sheathed fibres, with protective casing, whether or not containing electric conductors, currently falling under CN code ex 8544 70 00 (TARIC code 8544 70 00 10) and originating in the Mainland of China, with the following products excluded: (i) cables in which all the optical fibres are individually fitted with operational connectors at one or both extremities; and (ii) cables for submarine use (i.e. plastic insulated optical fibre cables, containing a copper or aluminium conductor, in which fibres are contained in metal module(s)) |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 88.0% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 39.4% to 62.4%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 10 August 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 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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