Notice concerning the anti-dumping and countervailing measures applicable to imports of certain steel products originating in Bulgaria, South Africa, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, India, Thailand, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China and Romania
Date: 2002-08-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: anti-dumping measure, iron and steel product, originating product, protective clause, third country

30.8.2002

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Notice concerning the anti-dumping and countervailing measures applicable to imports of certain
steel products originating in Bulgaria, South Africa, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, India,
Thailand, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China and Romania

(2002/C 206/06)

1. Existing anti-dumping and countervailing measures

The following steel products are presently subject
to anti-
to Council
dumping and/or countervailing duties pursuant
Regulation (EC) No 384/96 (1), as last amended by Council
Regulation (EC) No 2238/2000 (2), Council Regulation (EC)
No 2026/97 (3), Commission Decision No 2277/96/ECSC (4),
No
Decision
as
435/2001/ECSC (5), and Decision No 1889/98/ECSC (6):

Commission

amended

last

by

— certain flat rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a
width of 600 mm or more, not clad, plated or coated, in
coils, not further worked than hot-rolled (currently clas-
7208 25 00,
sifiable
7208 37 10,
7208 26 00,
7208 39 10,
7208 37 90,
7208 39 90), originating in Bulgaria, South Africa,
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (7) and India (8);

under CN codes
7208 27 00,
7208 38 10,

7208 10 00,
7208 36 00,
7208 38 90,

— certain flat products of non-alloy steel not clad, plated or
coated, not in coils, not further worked than hot rolled,
other than with patterns in relief of a width of 600 mm
or more and a thickness exceeding 10 mm, currently clas-
sifiable under CN codes ex 7208 51 30 (TARIC code
code
ex 7208 51 50
7208 51 30 10),
code
ex 7208 51 91
7208 51 50 10),
7208 51 91 10),
code
ex 7208 51 99
7208 51 99 10), or of a width of 2 050 mm or more and
a thickness of 4.75 mm or more but not exceeding

(TARIC
(TARIC
(TARIC

(1) OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 257, 11.10.2000, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 288, 21.10.1997, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 308, 29.11.1996, p. 11. Pursuant to Article 1(1) of Council
Regulation (EC) No 963/2002, as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1310/2002 (OJ L 192, 20.7.2002), measures adopted under
Decision No 2277/96/ECSC remain in force and are governed by
Regulation (EC) No 384/96.

(5) OJ L 63, 3.3.2001, p. 14.
(6) OJ L 245, 4.9.1998, p. 3. Pursuant to Article 2(1) of Council
Regulation (EC) No 963/2002, as amended by Regulation (EC) No
130/2002 (OJ L 192, 20.7.2002), measures adopted under Decision
No 1889/98/ECSC remain in force and are governed by Regulation
(EC) No 384/96.

(7) Commission Decision No 283/2000/ECSC of 4 February 2000 (OJ
amended by Decision No

L 31, 5.2.2000, p. 15),
841/2002/ECSC (OJ L 134, 22.5.2002, p. 11).

last

(8) Commission Decision No 283/2000/ECSC of 4 February 2000 (OJ
L 31, 5.2.2000, p. 15),
amended by Decision No
last
1043/2002/ECSC (OJ L 157, 15.6.2002, p. 45), and Commission
Decision No 284/2000/ECSC of 4 February 2000 (OJ L 31,
5.2.2000, p. 44), last amended by Decision No 1043/2002/ECSC
(OJ L 157, 15.6.2002, p. 45).

currently

10 mm,
code
classifiable
ex 7208 52 91 (TARIC code 7208 52 91 10), originating
in Romania (9);

under

CN

— certain stainless steel wires with a diameter of 1 millimetre
or more, containing by weight 2,5 % or more of nickel,
excluding wire containing by weight 28 % or more but
no more than 31 % of nickel and 20 % or more but not
more than 22 % of chromium, currently classifiable under
CN code ex 7223 00 19 (TARIC code 7223 00 19 90),
originating in India (10);

steel

iron or

— certain tube and pipe fittings (other than cast

fittings,
flanges and threaded fittings), of
(not
including stainless steel), with a greatest external diameter
not exceeding 609,6 mm, of a kind used for butt-welding
or other purposes, currently classifiable under CN codes
7307 93 11 91),
ex 7307 93 11
7307 93 19 91),
ex 7307 93 19
ex 7307 99 30
and
ex 7307 99 90 (TARIC code 7307 99 90 92), originating
in Thailand, the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (11).

7307 99 30 92)

(TARIC
(TARIC

code
code

(TARIC

code

2. Safeguard measures — assessment of combination of

measures

By Regulation (EC) No 560/2002 of 27 March 2002 (12), the
European Commission imposed provisional safeguard measures
against imports of certain steel products, including the above-
mentioned products, in the form of additional duties payable
on imports in excess of the relevant tariff quotas (hereinafter
‘the additional duty’). The Commission indicated, in recital 69
of the aforementioned Regulation, that the combined effect of
the safeguard measures and anti-dumping and/or counter-
vailing measures could lead to the establishment of a level of
protection higher than that which is necessary.

(9) Commission Decision No 1758/2000/ECSC of 9 August 2000 (OJ
last amended by Decision No

L 202, 10.8.2000, p. 21),
979/2002/ECSC (OJ L 150, 8.6.2002, p. 36).

(10) Council Regulation (EC) No 1599/1999 of 12 July 1999 (OJ L
189, 22.7.1999, p. 1), last amended by Council Regulation (EC)
No 164/2002 of 28 January 2002 (OJ L 30, 31.1.2002, p. 9), and
Council Regulation (EC) No 1600/1999 of 12 July 1999 (OJ L
189, 22.7.1999, p. 19).

(11) Council Regulation (EC) No 584/96 (OJ L 84, 3.4.1996, p. 1),
extended by Regulation (EC) No 763/2000 (OJ L 94, 14.4.2000,
p. 1) as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2314/2000 (OJ L 267,
and amended by Regulation (EC) No
20.10.2000, p. 15)
1592/2000 (OJ L 182, 21.7.2000, p. 1).

(12) OJ L 85, 28.3.2002, p. 1, amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 950/2002 of 3 June 2002 (OJ L 145, 4.6.2002, p. 12)
and last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1287/2002
(OJ L 187, 16.7.2002, p. 25).

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In the event that definitive safeguard measures are adopted, the
Commission may therefore consider it necessary to propose
amendments to the level of these existing anti-dumping or
countervailing duties, pursuant to the Treaty establishing the
European Community, and, in particular, Article 133 thereof,
having regard to Regulation (EC) No 384/96 and Regulation
(EC) No 2026/97. In this respect, the Commission considers it
appropriate to invite all interested parties to make known their
views.

All interested parties are hereby invited to make their views
known, submit information and provide supporting evidence
within 40 days of the publication of this Notice in the Official
Journal of the European Communities. Parties which make them-
selves known to the Commission within this time limit, will be
granted a further period during which to make comments
further to any Commission proposal for definitive safeguard
measures.

It is recalled that, for each of the products concerned, if the
definitive safeguard measures are not imposed, any additional
that product will be
duty paid in relation to imports of
refunded. Therefore,
that definitive
safeguard measures are adopted that it will become apparent
to what extent any of the products concerned are subject to the
combined effect of definitive safeguard measures and the anti-
dumping and/or countervailing measures.

is only in the event

it

4. Written submissions and correspondence

relevant

information is

All
to be communicated to the
Commission. All submissions and requests made by interested
parties must be made in writing (not in electronic format
indicate the name,
unless otherwise specified) and must
address, e-mail address,
telex
numbers of the interested party.

telephone and fax, and/or

3. Procedure and time limits

the Community industry,

In order to have all interested parties views on the above, the
Commission will
any
contact
the exporters/
association of producers in the Community,
producers
in the countries concerned, any association of
exporters/producers in the countries concerned, the importers,
and any association of
importers which cooperated in the
investigation leading to the abovementioned anti-dumping
and countervailing duty measures, and the relevant authorities
of the countries concerned.

The Commission address for correspondence is:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Trade
Directorate B
J-79 5/16
B-1049 Brussels
Fax (32-2) 295 65 05
Telex: COMEU B 21877.

Final report of

the Hearing Officer in cases COMP/M.2498 — UPM-Kymmene/Haindl, and

COMP/M.2499 — Norske Skog/Parenco/Walsum

(prepared under Article 15 of the Commission Decision of 23 May 2001 on the terms of reference of Hearing
Officers in certain competition proceedings (OJ L 162, 19.6.2001, p. 21))

(2002/C 206/07)

(Text with EEA relevance)

The draft Decision does not give rise to particular observations. The proceedings took a normal course.
The rights of parties to be heard were fully respected.

Done at Brussels on 30 October 2001.

Luc GYSELEN