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

16 October 2023

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 746/2023

European Union (EU)* : Impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware originating in the Mainland of China

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 539/2019 of 16 July 2019, the European Commission published a notice C/2023/182 on 16 October 2023 concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware originating in the Mainland of China. The notice is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202300182.

2.The product concerned is ceramic tableware and kitchenware, excluding ceramic condiment or spice mills and their ceramic grinding parts, ceramic coffee mills, ceramic knife sharpeners, ceramic sharpeners, ceramic kitchen tools to be used for cutting, grinding, grating, slicing, scraping and peeling, and cordierite ceramic pizza-stones of a kind used for baking pizza or bread, currently falling under CN codes ex 6911 10 00, ex 6912 00 21, ex 6912 00 23, ex 6912 00 25 and ex 6912 00 29 (TARIC codes 6911 10 00 90, 6912 00 21 11, 6912 00 21 91, 6912 00 23 10, 6912 00 25 10 and 6912 00 29 10). Unless a review is initiated in accordance with the procedure set out in the notice, the anti-dumping measures will expire at midnight of 16 July 2024.

3.Definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of the product originating in the Mainland of China have been imposed since 16 May 2013. The current rate of anti-dumping duty is 36.1% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 13.1% to 23.4%).

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.