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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
18 September 2023
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 644/2023
European Union (EU)* : Result of expiry review of the anti-dumping measures on imports of melamine originating in the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 538/2022 of 4 July 2022, the European Commission published an Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1776 on 15 September 2023 to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of melamine 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=OJ:JOL_2023_228_R_0009.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Melamine, currently falling under CN code 2933 61 00 and originating in the Mainland of China |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | EUR 415 per tonne net product weight (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates being the difference between the minimum import price of EUR 1,153 per tonne net product weight and the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, in all cases where the latter is less than the minimum import price) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 16 September 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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