Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/141 of 29 January 2025 making imports of screws without heads originating in the People’s Republic of China subject to registration
Date: 2025-01-29
Institutions: Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission
Subjects: China, anti-dumping measure, bolt and screw industry, import (EU), iron, originating product, steel, surveillance concerning imports




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2025/141


30.1.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/141
of 29 January 2025
         
making imports of screws without heads originating in the People’s Republic of China subject to registration


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Union (1) (‘the basic Regulation’) and in particular Article 14(5) thereof,


After informing the Member States,

Whereas:







(1)


On 17 October 2024, the European Commission (‘the Commission’) announced, by a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union (2), the initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding with regard to imports into the Union of screws without heads originating in the People’s Republic of China.












(2)


This initiation followed a complaint lodged on 2 September 2024 by the European Industrial Fasteners Institute (‘the complainant’) on behalf of producers representing more than 25 % of the total Union production of screws without heads.





1.   PRODUCT SUBJECT TO REGISTRATION







(3)


The product subject to registration (‘the product concerned’) is screws and bolts, whether or not with their nuts and washers, without heads, of iron or steel other than stainless steel, regardless of tensile strength, excluding coach screws and other wood screws, screw hooks and screw rings, self-tapping screws, and screws and bolts for fixing railway track construction material, currently classified under CN codes 7318 15 42  and 7318 15 48  and originating in the People’s Republic of China (‘the product under investigation’).




2.   REGISTRATION







(4)


Under Article 14(5) of the basic Regulation, imports of the product concerned may be made subject to registration for the purpose of ensuring that, if the investigation results in findings leading to the imposition of anti-dumping duties, those duties can, if the necessary conditions are fulfilled, be levied retroactively on the registered imports in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.










(5)


The Commission has decided to make imports of the product concerned subject to registration on its own initative under Article 14(5) of the basic Regulation. The conditions for retroactive collection of duties will be assessed in the regulation imposing definitive duties if any.










(6)


Any future liability would emanate from the findings of the anti-dumping investigation.










(7)


The calculations provided in the complaint requesting the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation estimate dumping margins between 100 % and 150 % and an injury elimination level between 150 % and 214 % for the product concerned for the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2023. The amount of possible future liability would normally be set at the lower of those two levels according to Article 7(2) of the basic Regulation.










(8)


However, at this stage the Commission is not in a position to estimate the amount of possible future liability. Thus, the amounts mentioned in the complaint are only for information purposes and cannot create any expectations as to the actual level of liability which will be established as a result of the investigation.




3.   PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA







(9)


Any personal data collected in the context of this registration will be treated in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data,




HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1

1.   The customs authorities are hereby directed, under Article 14(5) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036, to take the appropriate steps to register imports into the Union of screws and bolts, whether or not with their nuts and washers, without heads, of iron or steel other than stainless steel, regardless of tensile strength, excluding coach screws and other wood screws, screw hooks and screw rings, self-tapping screws, and screws and bolts for fixing railway track construction material, currently classified under CN codes 7318 15 42  and 7318 15 48  and originating in the People’s Republic of China.


2.   Registration shall expire nine months following the date of entry into force of this Regulation.



Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 29 January 2025.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 21, http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/1036/oj.

(2)  
            OJ C, C/2024/6209, 17.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6209/oj.

(3)  Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39, http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/1725/oj).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/141/oj
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