Commission Regulation (EC) No 2649/98 of 9 December 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 2107/98 imposing provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of polypropylene binder or baler twine originating in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Saudi Arabia and accepting undertakings offered by certain exporters in connection with those imports
Date: 1998-12-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: anti-dumping duty, dumping, import, manufactured goods, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2649/98

of 9 December 1998

amending Regulation (EC) No 2107/98 imposing provisional anti-dumping duties
on imports of polypropylene binder or baler twine originating in Poland, the
Czech Republic, Hungary and Saudi Arabia and accepting undertakings offered
by certain exporters in connection with those imports

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of
22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports
from countries
the European
Community (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
905/98 (2), and in particular Article 8(1) thereof,

not members

of

After consulting the Advisory Committee,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

A. PREVIOUS PROCEDURE

The Commission, by Regulation (EC) No 2107/
98 (3), imposed provisional anti-dumping duties on
imports into the Community of polypropylene
binder or baler twine originating in Poland, the
Czech Republic, Hungary and Saudi Arabia, and
accepted undertakings offered by certain exporters
in connection with those imports.

B. AMENDMENT

Following the imposition of the provisional anti-
dumping duties, the Czech producer Juta a.s., Dvur
Kralove nad Labem, offered an undertaking
pursuant to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 384/
96, and requested that it should be treated in the
same way as Hungarian producers from which
price undertakings have been accepted by Regula-
tion (EC) No 2107/98. The Commission consid-
ered that the undertaking offered by the Czech
producer was acceptable,

The undertaking offered by Juta a.s., Dvur Kralove nad
Labem, Czech Republic,
in connection with the anti-
dumping proceeding concerning imports of polypropy-
lene binder or baler twine originating, inter alia in the
Czech Republic,
ex
5607 41 00 (TARIC code 5607 41 00*10),
is hereby
accepted.

and falling within CN code

Article 2

Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2107/98 shall be
replaced by the following:

‘3.
Imports made within the context of the under-
takings offered and accepted shall be declared under
the following TARIC additional codes:

Country

Company

Hungary

Partium ’70 Rt.

Tiszai Vegyi Kombi-
nat Rt.

Elso Magyar Kender-
fono Rt.

Provisional
duty to be
imposed
in the event
of a breach
of the
undertaking
(%)

TARIC
additional
code

12,1

26,4

32,9

8581

8582

8583

Czech
Republic

Juta a.s.

24,9

8596'

Article 3

(1) OJ L 56, 6. 3. 1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 128, 30. 4. 1998, p. 18.
(3) OJ L 267, 2. 10. 1998, p. 7.

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

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

Done at Brussels, 9 December 1998.

For the Commission

Leon BRITTAN

Vice-President