Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/114 of 15 January 2026 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of fused alumina originating in the People’s Republic of China

Article 1

1.   A definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of fused alumina, currently falling under CN codes 2818 10 11 , 2818 10 19 , ex 2818 10 91 , and 2818 10 99 (TARIC codes 2818 10 91 20, 2818 10 91 40, 2818 10 91 91, 2818 10 91 99) originating in the People’s Republic of China. The anti-dumping duty shall not apply to imports falling within the duty-free tariff-rate quota established under Article 2. 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 of origin Company Definitive anti-dumping duty (%) TARIC additional code PRC Chongqing Saite Corundum Co., Ltd. 99,8 89RI PRC Luoyang Runbao Abrasives Co., Ltd. 88,7 89RJ PRC Other cooperating companies listed in Annex I 94,5 See Annex I PRC All other imports originating in PRC 110,6 8999 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 in unit we are using) 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. ’ Until such invoice is presented, the duty applicable to all other imports originating in the People’s Republic of China shall apply. 4.   Unless otherwise specified, the provisions in force concerning customs duties shall apply.

Article 2

1.   A duty-free tariff-rate quota is established for imports of fused alumina, currently falling under CN codes 2818 10 11 , 2818 10 19 , ex 2818 10 91 , and 2818 10 99 (TARIC codes 2818 10 11 10, 2818 10 11 20, 2818 10 11 30, 2818 10 11 40, 2818 10 11 91, 2818 10 11 99, 2818 10 91 20, 2818 10 91 40, 2818 10 91 91, 2818 10 91 99) originating in the People’s Republic of China. 2.   Imports of the product concerned within the quota volume shall not be subject to any anti-dumping duty. The volume of the duty-free tariff-rate quota, the product types (defined by reference to TARIC codes), and the periods to which it applies are specified in Annex II. 3.   The duty-free tariff-rate quota shall be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, based on the tariff-rate quota established equally for each quarter of the period of imposition, as specified in Annex II. 4.   The drawings on each quarterly quota shall be stopped on the twentieth working day of the Commission following the end of the quarterly period. At the end of each quarter, the unused balances of the tariff-rate quota shall automatically be transferred to the next quarter. No unused balance at the end of the last quarter of each year of application of the definitive tariff-rate quota shall be transferred. 5.   Where the relevant quota defined under paragraph 2 is exhausted, imports from the People’s Republic of China shall be subject to the applicable definitive anti-dumping duty in accordance with Article 1.

Article 3

1.   The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1456 shall be definitively collected at a level corresponding to 62,6 % of the duty rates established in Article 1 of this Regulation. The amounts secured in excess of the definitive rates of the anti-dumping duty shall be released. 2.   The rate of provisional anti-dumping duty that is to be collected in accordance with Article 10(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 shall be as follows: Country of origin Company Provisional anti-dumping duty (%) TARIC additional code PRC Chongqing Saite Corundum Co., Ltd. 62,4 89RI PRC Luoyang Runbao Abrasives Co., Ltd. 55,5 89RJ PRC Other cooperating companies listed in Annex I 59,1 See Annex I PRC All other imports originating in PRC 69,2 8999

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) during the period of investigation (1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024); (b) it is not related to an exporter or producer subject to the measures imposed by this Regulation, and which could have cooperated in the original investigation; 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 .

PRC cooperating exporting producers not sampled

ANNEX ISupplementary provisions

ANNEX I PRC cooperating exporting producers not sampled Country Name TARIC additional code PRC Art Abrasives (Guizhou) Co., Ltd. 89RK PRC Bedrock Corundum Co., Ltd. 89RL PRC Binzhou Qinai New Material Co., Ltd. 89RM PRC Guizhou Guxin New Materials Co., Ltd. 89RN PRC Guizhou Kaicheng Fused Minerals Co., Ltd. 89RO PRC Henan Ant Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. 89RP PRC Henan Haochen Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. 89RQ PRC Henan Hengxin Industrial & Mineral Products Co., Ltd 89SI PRC Henan Jinfeng New Material Technology Co., Ltd. 89RR PRC Imerys Fused Minerals (Guizhou) Co., Ltd. 89RS PRC Qinai (Shandong) New Material Co., Ltd. 89RT PRC Qingdao Reckel Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. 89RU PRC Qingdao Sisa Abrasives Co., Ltd. 89RV PRC Saint-Gobain Ceramic Materials (Zhengzhou) Co Ltd 89RW PRC Shandong Imerys Mount Tai Co., Ltd. 89RX PRC Shanxi Lvliangshan Mineral Co., Ltd. 89RY PRC Yichuan Kingsino Refractories Co., Ltd 89RZ PRC Zhengzhou Sinabuddy Mineral Co., Ltd. 89SA PRC Zhengzhou Yufa High-Tech Material Co., Ltd. 89SB PRC Zibo Jin Chun Tai Abrasives Co., Ltd. 89SD PRC Zibo Jinjiyuan Abrasives Co., Ltd. 89SC

ANNEX IISupplementary provisions

ANNEX II TARIC or CN code Description of the product 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 Order number     Volume of duty-free tariff-rate quota (net tonnes)   2818 10 11 10 Sol-Gel corundum (CAS RN 1302-74-5) with an aluminium oxide content of 99,6 % or more by weight, having a micro crystalline structure in the form of rods with an aspect ratio of 1,3 or more, but not more than 6,0 103,8 90,8 77,8 64,9 51,9 090520 2818 10 11 30 (NEW TARIC) Sintered Sol-Gel corundum or pre-sintered Sol-Gel with an aluminium oxide content of 99,6 % or more by weight, having a microcrystalline structure in the form of rods with an aspect ratio of 1,3 or more, but not more than 6,0 2818 10 11 40 Sintered Sol-Gel corundum or pre-sintered Sol-Gel with a microcrystalline structure, consisting of aluminium oxide, with a composition by weight (as oxides) of at least 98,5 % aluminium oxide, other than with an aluminium oxide content of 99,6 % or more by weight, having a microcrystalline structure in the form of rods with an aspect ratio of 1,3 or more, but not more than 6,0 2818 10 11 20 Sintered corundum with a micro crystalline structure, consisting of aluminium oxide (CAS RN 1344-28-1) and magnesium aluminate (CAS RN 12068-51-8), with a content by weight (calculated as oxides) of: — 92 % or more of aluminium oxide, and — 8 % or less of magnesium oxide 281810 11 91 (NEW TARIC) Fused alumina where both of the following apply: (i) between 5 % and 35 % of the product by weight is below the lowest grain size limit set out in the specification for the product; and (ii) between 1 % and 10 % of the product by weight is above the upper grain size limit set out in the specification for the product 7 177,6 6 280,4 5 383,2 4 486,0 3 588,8 090521 2818 10 11 99 (NEW TARIC) Other 10 087,7 8 826,7 7 565,7 6 304,8 5 043,8 090522 2818 10 19 With 50 % or more of the total weight having a particle size of more than 10 mm 56,1 49,1 42,1 35,0 28,0 090523 2818 10 91 20 Sintered corundum with a micro crystalline structure, consisting of aluminium oxide (CAS RN 1344-28-1), magnesium aluminate (CAS RN 12068-51-8) and the rare earth aluminates of yttrium, lanthanum and neodymium, with a content by weight (calculated as oxides) of: — 92 % or more, but less than 98,5 % of aluminium oxide, — 2 % (± 1,5 %) of magnesium oxide, — 1 % (± 0,6 %) of yttrium oxide, and — either 3 % (± 2,2 %) of lanthanum oxide, or — 2 % (± 1,2 %) of lanthanum oxide and neodymium oxide, with less than 50 % of the total weight having a particle size of more than 10 mm 574,9 503,0 431,2 359,3 287,5 090524 2818 10 91 40 (NEW TARIC) Sintered Sol-Gel corundum or pre-sintered Sol-Gel with a microcrystalline structure, consisting of aluminium oxide, with a composition by weight (as oxides) of at least 92 % but less than 98,5 % aluminium oxide 2818 10 91 91 (NEW TARIC) Fused alumina with a titanium dioxide content of 1 % by weight or more, where both of the following apply: (i) between 5 % and 35 % of the product by weight is below the lowest grain size limit set out in the specification for the product; and (ii) between 1 % and 10 % of the product by weight is above the upper grain size limit set out in the specification for the product 16 243,2 14 212,8 12 182,4 10 152,0 8 121,6 090525 2818 10 91 99 (NEW TARIC) Other 24 364,8 21 319,2 18 273,6 15 228,0 12 182,4 090526 2818 10 99 With 50 % or more of the total weight having a particle size of more than 10 mm 1 392,1 1 218,1 1 044,0 870,0 696,0 090527 2026 TARIC or CN code 2026   1 st quarter (16.1.2026–31.3.2026) 2 nd quarter (1.4.2026–30.6.2026) 3 rd quarter (1.7.2026–30.9.2026) 4 th quarter (1.10.2026–31.12.2026)   Volume of duty-free tariff-rate quota (net tonnes) 2818 10 11 10 2818 10 11 30 2818 10 11 20 2818 10 11 40 25,95 25,95 25,95 25,95 2818 10 11 91 1 794,39 1 794,39 1 794,39 1 794,39 2818 10 11 99 2 521,91 2 521,91 2 521,91 2 521,91 2818 10 19 14,02 14,02 14,02 14,02 2818 10 91 20 2818 10 91 40 143,73 143,73 143,73 143,73 2818 10 91 91 4 060,79 4 060,79 4 060,79 4 060,79 2818 10 91 99 6 091,19 6 091,19 6 091,19 6 091,19 2818 10 99 348,01 348,01 348,01 348,01 2027 TARIC or CN code 2027   1 st quarter (1.1.2027–31.3.2027) 2 nd quarter (1.4.2027–30.6.2027) 3 rd quarter (1.7.2027–30.9.2027) 4 th quarter (1.10.2027–31.12.2027)   Volume of duty-free tariff-rate quota (net tonnes) 2818 10 11 10 2818 10 11 30 2818 10 11 20 2818 10 11 40 22,71 22,71 22,71 22,71 2818 10 11 91 1 570,09 1 570,09 1 570,09 1 570,09 2818 10 11 99 2 206,67 2 206,67 2 206,67 2 206,67 2818 10 19 12,27 12,27 12,27 12,27 2818 10 91 20 2818 10 91 40 125,76 125,76 125,76 125,76 2818 10 91 91 3 553,19 3 553,19 3 553,19 3 553,19 2818 10 91 99 5 329,79 5 329,79 5 329,79 5 329,79 2818 10 99 304,51 304,51 304,51 304,51 2028 TARIC or CN code 2028   1 st quarter (1.1.2028–31.3.2028) 2 nd quarter (1.4.2028–30.6.2028) 3 rd quarter (1.7.2028–30.9.2028) 4 th quarter (1.10.2028–31.12.2028)   Volume of duty-free tariff-rate quota (net tonnes) 2818 10 11 10 2818 10 11 30 2818 10 11 20 2818 10 11 40 19,46 19,46 19,46 19,46 2818 10 11 91 1 345,79 1 345,79 1 345,79 1 345,79 2818 10 11 99 1 891,44 1 891,44 1 891,44 1 891,44 2818 10 19 10,51 10,51 10,51 10,51 2818 10 91 20 2818 10 91 40 107,79 107,79 107,79 107,79 2818 10 91 91 3 045,60 3 045,60 3 045,60 3 045,60 2818 10 91 99 4 568,39 4 568,39 4 568,39 4 568,39 2818 10 99 261,01 261,01 261,01 261,01 2029 TARIC or CN code 2029   1 st quarter (1.1.2029–31.3.2029) 2 nd quarter (1.4.2029–30.6.2029) 3 rd quarter (1.7.2029–30.9.2029) 4 th quarter (1.10.2029–31.12.2029)   Volume of duty-free tariff-rate quota (net tonnes) 2818 10 11 10 2818 10 11 30 2818 10 11 20 2818 10 11 40 16,22 16,22 16,22 16,22 2818 10 11 91 1 121,50 1 121,50 1 121,50 1 121,50 2818 10 11 99 1 576,20 1 576,20 1 576,20 1 576,20 2818 10 19 8,76 8,76 8,76 8,76 2818 10 91 20 2818 10 91 40 89,83 89,83 89,83 89,83 2818 10 91 91 2 538,00 2 538,00 2 538,00 2 538,00 2818 10 91 99 3 806,99 3 806,99 3 806,99 3 806,99 2818 10 99 217,51 217,51 217,51 217,51 2030 TARIC or CN code 2030   1 st quarter (1.1.2030–31.3.2030) 2 nd quarter (1.4.2030–30.6.2030) 3 rd quarter (1.7.2030–30.9.2030) 4 th quarter (1.10.2030–31.12.2030)   Volume of duty-free tariff-rate quota (net tonnes) 2818 10 11 10 2818 10 11 30 2818 10 11 20 2818 10 11 40 12,97 12,97 12,97 12,97 2818 10 11 91 897,20 897,20 897,20 897,20 2818 10 11 99 1 260,96 1 260,96 1 260,96 1 260,96 2818 10 19 7,01 7,01 7,01 7,01 2818 10 91 20 2818 10 91 40 71,86 71,86 71,86 71,86 2818 10 91 91 2 030,40 2 030,40 2 030,40 2 030,40 2818 10 91 99 3 045,60 3 045,60 3 045,60 3 045,60 2818 10 99 174,01 174,01 174,01 174,01