Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1408 of 6 October 2020 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain hot rolled stainless steel sheets and coils originating in Indonesia, the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan

1 A definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of flat-rolled products of stainless steel, whether or not in coils (including products cut-to-length and narrow strip), not further worked than hot-rolled and excluding products, not in coils, of a width of 600 mm or more and of a thickness exceeding 10 mm, currently falling under HS codes 721911, 721912, 721913, 721914, 721922, 721923, 721924, 722011 and 722012 and originating in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Indonesia.

2 The rate of the definitive anti-dumping duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, of the products described in paragraph 1 and produced by the companies listed below shall be as follows: CountryCompanyDuty rate (%)TARIC additional codeIndonesiaPT Indonesia Guang Ching Nickel and Stainless Steel Industry17,3C541PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel17,3C547All other companies17,3C999The People’s Republic of ChinaShanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co., Ltd19,0C163Taiyuan Taigang Daming Metal Products19,0C542Tisco Guangdong Stainless Steel Service Center Co., Ltd19,0C543Tianjin TISCO & TPCO Stainless Steel Co. Ltd19,0C025Fujian Fuxin Special Steel Co., Ltd14,6C544Zhenshi Group Eastern Special Steel Co., Ltd9,2C558Xiangshui Defeng Metals Co., Ltd17,5C545Fujian Dingxin Technology Co., Ltd17,5C546All other companies19,0C999TaiwanYieh United Steel Co.4,1C032Tang Eng Iron Works Co. Ltd4,1C031Walsin Lihwa Co.7,5C548All other companies7,5C999

3 The application of the individual duty rates specified for the companies mentioned in paragraph 2 shall be conditional upon presentation to the Member States’ customs authorities of a valid commercial invoice, on which shall appear a declaration dated and signed by an official of the entity issuing such invoice, identified by name and function, drafted as follows: ‘I, the undersigned, certify that the (volume) of (product concerned) sold for export to the European Union covered by this invoice was manufactured by (company name and address) (TARIC additional code) in [country concerned]. I declare that the information provided in this invoice is complete and correct.’ If no such invoice is presented, the duty applicable to all other companies shall apply.

4 Unless otherwise specified, the provisions in force concerning customs duties shall apply.

The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/508 shall be definitively collected. The amounts secured in excess of the definitive rates of the anti-dumping duty shall be released.

No definitive anti-dumping duty will be levied retroactively for registered imports. Data collected in accordance with Article 1 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/104 shall no longer be kept.

Article 1(2) may be amended to add new exporting producers from the People’s Republic of China and make them subject to the appropriate weighted average anti-dumping duty rate for cooperating companies not included in the sample. A new exporting producer shall provide evidence that: (a) it did not export the goods described in Article 1(1) originating in the People’s Republic of China during the period of investigation (1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019); (b) it is not related to an exporter or producer subject to the measures imposed by this Regulation; and (c) it has either actually exported the product concerned or has entered into an irrevocable contractual obligation to export a significant quantity to the Union after the end of the period of investigation.

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