02017R0649 — EN — 10.06.2017 — 001.001

This text is meant purely as a documentation tool and has no legal effect. The Union's institutions do not assume any liability for its contents. The authentic versions of the relevant acts, including their preambles, are those published in the Official Journal of the European Union and available in EUR-Lex. Those official texts are directly accessible through the links embedded in this document

Amended by:





Corrected by:









▼B

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/649

of 5 April 2017

imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People's Republic of China







Article 1

1. A definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of imports of certain flat-rolled products of iron, non-alloy steel or other alloy steel, whether or not in coils (including ‘cut-to-length’ and ‘narrow strip’ products), not further worked than hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated, originating in the People's Republic of China.

The product concerned does not include:

— products of stainless steel and grain-oriented silicon electrical steel,

— products of tool steel and high-speed steel,

— products, not in coils, without patterns in relief, of a thickness exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 600 mm or more, and

— products, not in coils, without patterns in relief, of a thickness of 4,75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 2 050 mm or more.

The product concerned is currently falling within CN codes 7208 10 00 , 7208 25 00 , 7208 26 00 , 7208 27 00 , 7208 36 00 , 7208 37 00 , 7208 38 00 , 7208 39 00 , 7208 40 00 , 7208 52 10 , 7208 52 99 , 7208 53 10 , 7208 53 90 , 7208 54 00 , 7211 13 00 , 7211 14 00 , 7211 19 00 , ex 7225 19 10 (TARIC code 7225191090 ), 7225 30 90 , ex 7225 40 60 (TARIC code 7225406090 ), 7225 40 90 , ex 7226 19 10 (TARIC code 7226191090 ), 7226 91 91 and 7226 91 99 .

▼M1

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







Country Company Definitive anti-dumping duty TARIC Additional Code People's Republic of China Bengang Steel Plates Co., Ltd. 0 % C157 Handan Iron & Steel Group Han-Bao Co., Ltd. 10,3 % C158 Hesteel Co., Ltd. Tangshan Branch (1) 10,3 % C159 Hesteel Co., Ltd. Chengde Branch (2) 10,3 % C160 Zhangjiagang Hongchang Plate Co., Ltd. 31,3 % C161 Zhangjiagang GTA Plate Co., Ltd. 31,3 % C162 Shougang Jingtang United Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. 0 % C164 Beijing Shougang Co. Ltd., Qian'an Iron & Steel branch 0 % C208 Angang Steel Company Limited 10,8 % C150 Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union Co., Ltd. 0 % C151 Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel Works Co., Ltd. 0 % C147 Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co., Ltd. 0 % C163 Maanshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd 10,8 % C165 Rizhao Steel Wire Co., Ltd. 10,8 % C166 Rizhao Baohua New Material Co., Ltd. 10,8 % C167 Tangshan Yanshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. 0 % C168 Wuhan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. 10,8 % C156 All other companies 0 % C999 (1) Formerly ‘Hebei Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. Tangshan Branch’. (2) Formerly ‘Hebei Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. Chengde Branch’.

▼B

3. The application of the individual anti-dumping duty rates specified for the companies mentioned in paragraph 2 shall be conditional upon presentation to the customs authorities of the Member States 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 his/her name and function, drafted as follows: ‘I, the undersigned, certify that the (volume) of hot-rolled flat steel products 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 rate applicable to ‘all other companies’ shall apply.

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

▼M1

5. Where any new exporting producer in the People's Republic of China provides sufficient evidence to the Commission that:

(a) it did not export to the Union the product concerned in paragraph 1 in the period between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2015 (investigation period);

(b) it is not related to any exporter or producer in the People's republic of China which is subject to the anti-dumping measures imposed by this Regulation;

(c) it has actually exported to the Union the product concerned after the investigation period on which measures are based, or it has entered into an irrevocable contractual obligation to export a significant quantity to the Union,

Article 1(2) may be amended by adding the new exporting producer to the list of companies identified in the table and subject to an individual duty not exceeding the duty rate applicable to those companies that cooperated in the anti-dumping investigation but not in the anti-subsidy investigation, i.e. 0 %.

▼B

Article 2

▼C1

The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duties pursuant to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1778 ( 1 ) shall be definitively released.

▼B

Article 3

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

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

▼M1 —————