Guidance

Stainless steel hot-rolled flat products from China, Indonesia and Taiwan (anti-dumping duty 2396)

Published 9 April 2020

Imposing provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain stainless steel hot-rolled flat products (SSHR), originating from China, Indonesia and Taiwan.

The Commission has announced in Regulation 2020/508, Official Journal ref. L110, the imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain flat-rolled products of stainless steel, originating from China, Indonesia and Taiwan.

This regulation takes effect from 9 April 2020.

Product description

  • stainless steel flat-rolled products
  • whether or not in coils
  • including products cut-to-length and narrow strip
  • not further worked than hot-rolled

The following products are excluded:

  • products, not in coils, of a width of 600mm or more and of a thickness exceeding 10mm

Products affected

The products affected are currently classified within commodity codes:

  • 7219 1100 00
  • 7219 1210 00
  • 7219 1290 00
  • 7219 1310 00
  • 7219 1390 00
  • 7219 1410 00
  • 7219 1490 00
  • 7219 2210 00
  • 7219 2290 00
  • 7219 2300 00
  • 7219 2400 00
  • 7220 1100 00
  • 7220 1200 00

The rates of the provisional anti-dumping duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, of the product, produced by the companies listed as follows:

Country Company Provisional anti-dumping duty TARIC additional code
Indonesia PT Indonesia Guang Ching Nickel and Stainless Steel Industry 17% C541
Indonesia PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel 17% C547
Indonesia All other companies 17% C999
China Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co Ltd 18.9% C163
China Taiyuan Taigang Daming Metal Products 18.9% C542
China Tisco Guangdong Stainless Steel Service Center Co. Ltd 18.9% C543
China Tianjin TISCO & TPCO Stainless Steel Co Ltd 18.9% C025
China Fujian Fuxin Special Steel Co Ltd 14.5% C544
China Xiangshui Defeng Metals Co Ltd 17.4% C545
China Fujian Dingxin Technology Co Ltd 17.4% C546
China All other companies 18.9% C999
Taiwan Yieh United Steel Co 6% C032
Taiwan Tang Eng Iron Works Co Ltd 6% C031
Taiwan Walsin Lihwa Co 7.5% C548
Taiwan All other companies 7.5% C999

The individual duty rates for the companies above are conditional upon presentation to customs authorities of a valid commercial invoice, on which appears a declaration, dated and signed by an official of the entity issuing such invoice, identified by their name and function, as follows:

‘I, the undersigned, certify that the (volume) of (product concerned) sold for export to the European Union covered by this invoice was manufactured by (company name and address) (TARIC additional code) in (the country concerned).

I declare that the information provided in this invoice is complete and correct.’

If no such invoice is presented, the duty applicable to all other companies shall apply.

Provisional measures will continue for 6 months.

The release for free circulation in the Union or UK of the product will be subject to the provision of a security deposit equivalent to the amount of the provisional duty.

On the customs declaration on release for free circulation of the product, the number of pieces of the product must be declared in the supplementary units field (box 41).

Registration of imports of the product will be discontinued. A decision regarding any retrospective application anti-dumping duty to imports registered to date will be taken at the end of the investigation.

Interested parties are invited to make their views known to the Commission or request to be heard (within very short time limits) refer to the regulation for details.

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