Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1408 of 6 October 2020 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain hot rolled stainless steel sheets and coils originating in Indonesia, the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1408
• Articles: 5

Article 1

1.   A definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of flat-rolled products of stainless steel, whether or not in coils (including products cut-to-length and narrow strip), not further worked than hot-rolled and excluding products, not in coils, of a width of 600 mm or more and of a thickness exceeding 10 mm, currently falling under HS codes 7219 11, 7219 12, 7219 13, 7219 14, 7219 22, 7219 23, 7219 24, 7220 11 and 7220 12 and originating in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Indonesia.

2.   The rate of the definitive anti-dumping duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, of the products described in paragraph 1 and produced by the companies listed below shall be as follows:

Country

Company

Duty rate (%)

TARIC additional code

Indonesia

PT Indonesia Guang Ching Nickel and Stainless Steel Industry

17,3

C541

PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel

17,3

C547

All other companies

17,3

C999

The People’s Republic of China

Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co., Ltd

19,0

C163

Taiyuan Taigang Daming Metal Products

19,0

C542

Tisco Guangdong Stainless Steel Service Center Co., Ltd

19,0

C543

Tianjin TISCO & TPCO Stainless Steel Co. Ltd

19,0

C025

Fujian Fuxin Special Steel Co., Ltd

14,6

C544

Zhenshi Group Eastern Special Steel Co., Ltd

9,2

C558

Xiangshui Defeng Metals Co., Ltd

17,5

C545

Fujian Dingxin Technology Co., Ltd

17,5

C546

All other companies

19,0

C999

Taiwan

Yieh United Steel Co.

4,1

C032

Tang Eng Iron Works Co. Ltd

4,1

C031

Walsin Lihwa Co.

7,5

C548

All other companies

7,5

C999

3.   The application of the individual duty rates specified for the companies mentioned in paragraph 2 shall be conditional upon presentation to the Member States’ customs authorities of a valid commercial invoice, on which shall appear a declaration dated and signed by an official of the entity issuing such invoice, identified by name and function, drafted 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 [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.

4.   Unless otherwise specified, the provisions in force concerning customs duties shall apply.

Article 2

The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/508 shall be definitively collected. The amounts secured in excess of the definitive rates of the anti-dumping duty shall be released.

Article 3

No definitive anti-dumping duty will be levied retroactively for registered imports. Data collected in accordance with Article 1 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/104 shall no longer be kept.

Article 4

Article 1(2) may be amended to add new exporting producers from the People’s Republic of China and make them subject to the appropriate weighted average anti-dumping duty rate for cooperating companies not included in the sample. A new exporting producer shall provide evidence that:

(a)

it did not export the goods described in Article 1(1) originating in the People’s Republic of China during the period of investigation (1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019);

(b)

it is not related to an exporter or producer subject to the measures imposed by this Regulation; and

(c)

it has either actually exported the product concerned or has entered into an irrevocable contractual obligation to export a significant quantity to the Union after the end of the period of investigation.

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .