2008/384/EC: Commission Decision of 21 May 2008 amending Decision 2005/622/EC accepting undertakings offered in connection with the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of grain oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel originating in the United States of America and Russia
Date: 2008-05-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Russia, United States, anti-dumping duty, anti-dumping legislation, import, originating product, plate, steel

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Official Journal of the European Union

22.5.2008

COMMISSION DECISION

of 21 May 2008

amending Decision 2005/622/EC accepting undertakings offered in connection with the anti-
dumping proceeding concerning imports of grain oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical
steel originating in the United States of America and Russia

(2008/384/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

B. REPEAL OF DECISION 2005/622/EC

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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)
(the basic Regulation), and in particular Articles 8 and 9 thereof,

After consulting the Advisory Committee,

(3)

(4)

(5)

On 23 February 2007, the Commission initiated (4) a
partial interim review limited to the examination of the
level of dumping for two Russian exporting producers,
NLMK and Viz Stal.

The findings of the review, which are set out in Council
Regulation (EC) No 435/2008 (5), were that the measures
in force on imports of GOES from Russia should be
the proceeding concerning those
repealed and that
imports should be terminated.

the

above,

view of

In
Commission Decision
2005/622/EC, by which the Commission accepted an
undertaking from NLMK, should be amended and the
undertaking accepted from NLMK should be repealed,

Whereas:

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

A. PREVIOUS PROCEDURE

By Regulation (EC) No 1371/2005 (2),
the Council
imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of
grain oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical
steel
(GOES) originating in the United States of
America (USA) and Russia.

By Decision 2005/622/EC (3), the Commission accepted
price undertakings offered by two co-operating exporting
producers whose exports to the Community of GOES are
to company-specific duties, namely AK Steel
subject
Corporation, USA,
and Novolipetsk Iron & Steel
Corporation (NLMK), Russia.

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

(EC) No 2117/2005 (OJ L 340, 23.12.2005, p. 17).

(2) OJ L 223, 27.8.2005, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 41/2008 (OJ L 16, 19.1.2008, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 223, 27.8.2005, p. 42.

undertaking

The
Commission Decision
2005/622/EC from Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Corporation
(NLMK), is hereby repealed.

accepted

by

Article 2

Article 1 of Commission Decision 2005/622/EC shall be
replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

The undertaking offered by the producer mentioned in the
accompanying table,
in connection with the present anti-
dumping proceeding concerning imports of grain oriented
flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel originating in
the United States of America is hereby accepted.

(4) OJ C 39, 23.2.2007, p. 26.
(5) OJ L 132, 22.5.2008, p. 1.

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Country

Company

TARIC additional code

USA

Produced by AK Steel Corporation 703, Curtis Street,
Middletown, Ohio,

A673’

or,

Produced by AK Steel Corporation, 703, Curtis Street,
Middletown, Ohio, and sold by AK Steel BV, Oosterhout,
the Netherlands, to the first independent customer in the
Community acting as an importer.

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

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 21 May 2008.

For the Commission

Peter MANDELSON
Member of the Commission