19.1.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
L 17/85
(5)
Based on public information, the transaction was approved by the competent national authorities (5) and was then completed (6).
(6)
Meide Group is active in the production and sale of the product concerned, among other products.
In addition, Meide Group is engaged in the import and export of its products and those of third parties (7).
The product concerned exported by Meide Group from the PRC to the Union is subject to the anti-dumping measures imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1259.
(7)
Meide Group and Jinan Meide are related companies.
(8)
Therefore, the Commission considered that the completion of the transaction warranted a change to the relevant TARIC codes in order to better monitor imports, for the reasons that follow.
(9)
The product concerned currently falls under Combined Nomenclature (‘CN’) code ex 7307 19 10 (TARIC codes 7307 19 10 10 and 7307 19 10 20).
(10)
Besides the TARIC codes subject to measures, the residual TARIC code 7307 19 10 90 includes a number of products, among them the two products expressly excluded by the product definition of the product concerned (i. e., bodies of compression fittings using ISO DIN 13 metric thread and malleable iron threaded circular junction boxes without having a lid) and also unthreaded tube or pipe cast fittings.
(11)
Threading is only the last manufacturing step of the product concerned.
Therefore, unthreaded and semi-finished tube or pipe cast fittings could be imported in the Union under the residual TARIC code, to which anti-dumping measures do not apply, and could undergo the threading process within the Union.
(12)
The Commission considered the data retrievable from the current TARIC code structure not sufficiently adequate to monitor the import flows of unthreaded tube or pipe cast fittings from the PRC, because they are currently mixed with the high number of products falling within the residual TARIC code 7307 19 10 90.
(13)
Therefore, the TARIC codes under CN code ex 7307 19 10 should be restructured into threaded (TARIC codes 7307 19 10 03, 7307 19 10 05, 7307 19 10 10, 7307 19 10 13, 7307 19 10 20, 7307 19 10 30), or unthreaded (TARIC codes 7307 19 10 35, 7307 19 10 40, 7307 19 10 45) products.
Moreover, for both threaded and unthreaded products, it should be specified whether they are made of malleable cast iron (TARIC codes 7307 19 10 10 and 7307 19 10 35 respectively), spheroidal graphite cast iron (TARIC codes 7307 19 10 20 and 7307 19 10 40 respectively) or other materials (TARIC codes 7307 19 10 30 and 7307 19 10 45 respectively).
Finally, within the threaded tube or pipe fittings of malleable cast iron and spheroidal graphite cast iron, new specific TARIC codes should be created for the products expressly excluded by the product definition of the product concerned, namely bodies of compression fittings using ISO DIN 13 metric thread, of malleable cast iron (TARIC code 7307 19 10 03), malleable cast iron threaded circular junction boxes without having a lid (TARIC code 7307 19 10 05) and bodies of compression fittings using ISO DIN 13 metric thread, of spheroidal graphite cast iron (TARIC code 7307 19 10 13).
(14)
The TARIC codes to which measures apply – TARIC codes 7307 19 10 10 and 7307 19 10 20 – remain unchanged and only the description should be updated to ‘Other’ to ensure consistency with the new TARIC structure.
(5) See https://uokik.gov.pl/news.php?news_id=17989 and Decision DKK-83/2022 of 16 March 2022, available at: https://uokik.gov.pl/ koncentracje.php?news_id=17397 (6) See both the Orbis M&A database and https://globallegalchronicle.com/meide-groups-acquisition-of-odlewnia-zawiercie/ (7) See Decision DKK-83/2022, cit.