Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/554

of 9 April 2018

amending Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 412/2013 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware, originating in the People's Republic of China

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to European Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of 8 June 2016 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Union1 and in particular Article 9(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)
With Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 412/20132 of 13 May 2013, a definitive anti-dumping duty was imposed on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware, originating in the People's Republic of China.
(2)

On 10 June 2017, a Chinese exporting producer requested the Commission to amend the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 412/2013 to reflect the company's full name in English as mentioned on its business licence. In view of the underlying evidence the Commission accepted this request.

(3)

In view of the above Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 412/2013 should be amended accordingly.

(4)

This Regulation is in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 1(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 412/2013 is replaced as follows:

‘2.

The rate of the definitive anti-dumping duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, of the product described in paragraph 1 and produced by the companies listed below, shall be as follows:

Company

Duty (%)

TARIC additional code

Hunan Hualian China Industry Co., Ltd; Hunan Hualian Ebillion China Industry Co., Ltd; Hunan Liling Hongguanyao China Industry Co., Ltd; Hunan Hualian Yuxiang China Industry Co., Ltd

18,3

B349

Guangxi Sanhuan Enterprise Group Holding Co., Ltd

13,1

B350

CHL Porcelain Industries Ltd

23,4

B351

Shandong Zibo Niceton-Marck Huaguang Ceramics Limited; Zibo Huatong Ceramics Co., Ltd; Shandong Silver Phoenix Co., Ltd; Niceton Ceramics (Linyi) Co., Ltd; Linyi Jingshi Ceramics Co., Ltd; Linyi Silver Phoenix Ceramics Co., Ltd; Linyi Chunguang Ceramics Co., Ltd; Linyi Zefeng Ceramics Co., Ltd

17,6

B352

Guangxi Province Beiliu City Laotian Ceramics Co., Ltd

22,9

B353

Companies listed in Annex I

17,9

All other companies

36,1

B999’

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, 9 April 2018.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude Juncker