CELEX: 31992D0423
Language: en
Date: 1992-08-07 00:00:00
Title: 92/423/ECSC: Commission Decision of 7 August 1992 terminating the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of pig-iron, originating in Turkey

No L 230/30                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                13 . 8 . 92
                                                    COMMISSION
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 7 August 1992
                   terminating the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of pig-iron,
                                                       originating in Turkey
                                                             (92/423/ECSC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                tunity to make known their views in writing and to
                                                                           request a hearing.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community,
                                                                       (4) The Commission sought and verified all informa­
Having regard to Commission Decision No 2424/88/                           tion it deemed to be necessary for the purpose of a
ECSC of 29 July 1988 on protection against dumped or                       preliminary determination and carried out investi­
subsidized imports from countries not members of the                       gations at the premises of the following compa­
European Coal and Steel Community ('), and in particular                   nies :
Article 9 thereof,
After consultations within the Advisory Committee as                       Community producers :
provided for by the above Decision,
                                                                           — Duisburger Kupferhütte        GmbH,      Duisburg,
Whereas :                                                                      Germany ;
                                                                           — Halbergerhütte GmbH, Saarbrücken-Brebach,
                            A. PROCEDURE
                                                                                Germany ;
(1 )    In June       1991    the Commission        received a             — Stahlwerke     Peine-Salzgitter  AG,     Salzgitter,
         complaint lodged by 'Eurofontes' on behalf of                          Germany ;
         producers whose collective output allegedly consti­               — Thyssen Stahl AG, Duisburg, Germany ;
         tutes the majority of Community production of
         hematite and SG pig-iron. The complaint                           — Cleveland Iron, Redcar, United Kingdom ;
        contained evidence of dumping and of material                      — Alti Forni e Ferriere di Servola SpA, Trieste,
         injury resulting therefrom, which was considered                       Italy.
         sufficient to justify the initiation of a proceeding.
        The Commission accordingly announced, by a
         notice published in the Official Journal of the                   Community importers :
         European Communities (2), the initiation of an                    — Eisen      und    Metall    AG,    Gelsenkirchen,
         anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports into                        Germany ;
         the Community of hematite pig-iron falling under
         CN code 7201 10 19 and SG pig-iron, falling under                 — Leopold Lazarus          Ltd,   London,      United
         CN code 7201 10 90, originating in Turkey and the                      Kingdom.
         Soviet Union (3).
(2)      The investigation of dumping covered the period               (5) The Commission also sent questionnaires to produ­
         from 1 July 1990 to 30 June 1991 .                                cers and exporters in Turkey known to be
                                                                           concerned in order to obtain the necessary infor­
(3)      The Commission officially so advised the exporting                mation .
         producers and importers known to be concerned,
         the representatives of Turkey and the complainant             (6) The Commission received information concerning
         and gave the parties directly concerned the oppor­                Turkish producers which indicated that the exports
                                                                           from Turkey were apparently of an incidental and
 (») OJ No L 209, 2. 8. 1988, p. 18, (corrected in OJ No L 273,             temporary nature. On the basis of this information
     5. 10. 1988, p. 19).                                                   the Commission considered that the contribution
 (2) OJ No C 246, 21 . 9. 1991 , p. 9.                                      of these imports to any material injury suffered by
 (3) The proceeding concerning imports of the product concerned
     from the former Soviet Union will be the subject of a separate         the Community industry appeared no more than
     Commission Decision .                                                  negligible.
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(7)     The Commission informed the complainant of the           HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
         information received from the Turkish producers.
         Subsequently, the complainant formally withdrew                                Sole article
         the complaint with regard to imports of the
         products concerned from Turkey. The Commission          The anti-dumping proceeding in respect of imports of
         considered that, in the particular circumstances,       non-alloy pig-iron containing by weight 0,5 % or less of
         there was no reason to continue the investigation       phosphorus and falling under CN codes 7201 10 19
        with regard to imports from Turkey.                      (containing by weight not less than 0,4 % of manganese
                                                                 and more than 1 % of silicon) and 7201 10 90 (containing
                                                                 by weight less than 0,1 % of manganese), originating in
         B. TERMINATION OF THE ANTI-DUMPING                      Turkey is hereby terminated.
               PROCEEDING CONCERNING TURKEY
(8)      In view of the withdrawal of the complaint regar­       Done at Brussels, 7 August 1992.
         ding imports of pig-iron originating in Turkey, the
         Commission considers that the anti-dumping                                        For the Commission
         proceeding shall, with regard to these imports, be
                                                                                           Jean DONDELINGER
         terminated without imposition of protective
         measures,                                                                     Member of the Commission