Case C-74/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Debreceni Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság (Hungary) lodged on 12 February 2013 — GSV Kft v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Észak-Alföldi Regionális Vám- és Pénzügyőri Főigazgatósága
Date: 2013-02-12
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: China, anti-dumping duty, classification, glass fibre, import (EU), interpretation of the law, originating product, tariff nomenclature, textile fibre








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8.6.2013   


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Official Journal of the European Union


C 164/7





Request for a preliminary ruling from the Debreceni Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság (Hungary) lodged on 12 February 2013 — GSV Kft v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Észak-Alföldi Regionális Vám- és Pénzügyőri Főigazgatósága
(Case C-74/13)
2013/C 164/12
Language of the case: Hungarian

Referring court

Debreceni Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: GSV Kft

Defendant: Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Észak-Alföldi Regionális Vám- és Pénzügyőri Főigazgatósága

Questions referred







1.


Can it be considered that a material






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which is white,










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has a rectangular shape,










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consists of a woven fabric,










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is made with a weave of twisted thread,










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whose wefts are composed of two threads which,










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crossing each other, surround the warps,










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whose openings are 4 × 4 mm,










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measures up to 100 cm × 201 cm,










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is made of glass fibres which possess a styrene acrylic copolymer plastic coating,










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is not made from rovings,










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weighs 136 g/m2,










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with a warp density of 415 tex,










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and a weft density of 132 tex,




complies with the material characteristics set out in recital 14 of the preamble and in Article 1(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 138/2011 (1) of 16 February 2011 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain open mesh fabrics of glass fibres originating in the People’s Republic of China, which consist of






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open mesh fabrics










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of glass fibres,










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of a cell size of more than 1,8 mm both in length and in width,










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and weighing more than 35 g/m2,




and, consequently, that TARIC code 7019590010 must be interpreted so that the material described above is included as such in that TARIC code, taking into account also the tariff classification and the various linguistic versions of Community law?










2.


If the answer to the first question is in the affirmative, can payment of the anti-dumping duty be waived, on the basis of the Community legal order, for a legal or physical person who, trusting in the wording of the Regulation published in the language corresponding to its nationality — without ascertaining potentially different meanings in other language versions — on the basis of the general and well-known understanding of the legislation in that person’s language, imports into the territory of the European Union a product manufactured outside that territory, taking into account that, according to the language version that the person knows, that product is not included in the list of goods subject to anti-dumping duty, even if it may be determined, on the basis of a comparison of the different language versions of the rule of Community law, that Community law does make the product subject to anti-dumping duty?






(1)  Commission Regulation (EU) No 138/2011 of 16 February 2011 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain open mesh fabrics of glass fibres originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ 2011 L 43, p. 9).