27-05-2013 Lower anti-dumping duty after lobby for ceramic!
The European Commission, by Regulation (EU) No 1072/2012 ( 2 ), imposed a provisional anti- dumping duty on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware originating in the People's Republic of China. This proceeding was initiated on February 16, 2012 following a complaint lodged on behalf of Union producers, representing more than 30 % of the total Union production of ceramic tableware and kitchenware.As EPPA, we objected against this provisional anti-dumping duty: our promotional ceramic would become almost twice as expensive as before. EPPA joined several hearings of the Trade Injury Team in Brussels, one of them including all EPPA country-members involved.
After being heard as industry, the Commission imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware, excluding ceramic knives, ceramic condiment or spice mills and their ceramic grinding parts, ceramic peelers, ceramic knife sharpeners and cordierite ceramic pizza-stones of a kind used for baking pizza or bread. (Currently falling within CN codes ex 6911 10 00, ex 6912 00 10, ex 6912 00 30, ex 6912 00 50 and ex 6912 00 90 (TARIC codes 6911 10 00 90, 6912 00 10 11, 6912 00 10 91, 6912 00 30 10, 6912 00 50 10 and 6912 00 90 10) and originating in China.)
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 all Chinese companies shall be 36,1%. Some Chinese companies have lower percentage. You can see the entire list of companies here: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:131:0001:0045:EN:PDF
EPPA is proud that the EU Commission heard all of our arguments and lowered the duty from 58,8% to 36,1%. For us, as industry and as EPPA, this is big step forward in being recognized as trade association.