Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Croatia and Ukraine
Date: 2002-08-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Croatia, Ukraine, anti-dumping duty, common commercial policy, import, originating product, piping, tube

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Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 imposing a definitive
anti-dumping duty on imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel
originating in Croatia and Ukraine

(2002/C 331 E/27)

COM(2002) 452 final

(Submitted by the Commission on 5 August 2002)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

On 19 November 1998, an anti-dumping proceeding was initiated by the Commission and led to the
imposition of a definitive anti-dumping duty on certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel
originating, inter alia, in Ukraine by Council Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 (1).

Exemptions to the duties were granted, however, inter alia for imports produced and sold for export to the
Community by three Ukrainian exporters from which the Commission accepted a joint undertaking (cf
Commission Decision 2000/137/EC (2)). These companies are listed in the aforementioned Regulation and
Decision.

The three Ukrainian companies advised the Commission that they wished to withdraw the joint under-
taking.

In view of the above, it is necessary by means of the attached Regulation, to propose to the Council that
the companies benefiting from an exemption to the anti-dumping duty from the Ukraine listed in Article
2(4) of Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 be amended.

In parallel to the attached Regulation, the Commission is amending Article 1 of Commission Decision
2000/137/EC.

(1) OJ L 45, 17.2.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 46, 18.2.2000, p. 34.

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel (‘the
product concerned’) originating, inter alia, in Ukraine.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of
22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports
from countries not members of the European Community (1),
and in particular Article 8 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal submitted by the Commission
after consulting the Advisory Committee,

Whereas:

A. PREVIOUS PROCEDURE

(1) On 19 November 1998, an anti-dumping proceeding was
initiated by the Commission (2) on imports of certain

(2) This proceeding resulted in an anti-dumping duty being
imposed by Council Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 (3) in
February 2000 in order to eliminate the injurious effects
of dumping.

(3) In parallel, by Decision 2000/137/EC (4), the Commission
accepted a joint price undertaking up to a certain volume
threshold incorporating measures aimed at monitoring the
undertaking from three Ukrainian exporting producers,
Dnepropetrovsk Tube Works (‘DTW’), Nikopol Pivden-
notrubny Works (transferred later to Nikopolsky Seamless
‘Niko Tube’ (5)) and Nizhnedneprovsky Tube
Tube Plant,
Rolling Plant
the
product concerned from these exporting producers were
exempted from the said anti-dumping duty.

(‘NTRP’). Accordingly,

imports of

(1) OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1, Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2238/2000 (OJ L 257, 11.10.2000, p. 2).

(2) OJ C 353, 19.11.1998, p. 13.

(3) OJ L 45, 17.2.2000, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 46, 18.2.2000, p. 34.
(5) OJ C 198, 13.7.2001, p. 2.

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B. VOLUNTARY WITHDRAWAL OF THE JOINT UNDER-
TAKING

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(4) DTW, Niko Tube and NTRP advised the Commission that
undertaking.
to withdraw this
they wished
Accordingly, by Commission Decision 2002/. . ./EC,
the
names of these companies have been deleted from the
list of companies from which undertakings are accepted
in Article 1 of Decision 2000/137/EC.

joint

C. AMENDMENT OF REGULATION (EC) No 348/2000

(5) In view of

the above and pursuant

to Article 8(9) of
Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96, Article 2(4) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 348/2000 should be amended accordingly,
to the
and the exporting producers should be subject
appropriate rate of anti-dumping duty for the Ukraine as
set
in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 348/2000
(38,5 %),

Article 1

table

The
No 348/2000 is replaced by the following table.

in Article 2(4) of Council Regulation (EC)

Country

Manufacturer

Taric additional code

Croatia

Zeljezara Sisak d.d., Sisak

A064

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of
the European
Communities.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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