The European Commission (EC) has announced it has amended the imposition of definitive antidumping duties on imports of certain magnesia bricks originating in China, in concern with two companies.
Subsequent to the imposition of definitive measures on imports of certain magnesia bricks originating in China since 2005, the EC received an application to initiate a partial interim review from a Chinese exporting producer, Bayuquan Refractories Company Limited (BRC). The applicant did not participate in the investigation which led to the findings and conclusions laid down in the original investigation and therefore the residual antidumping duty of 39.9 percent is applied to it. BRC was purchased by the Vesuvius Group which resulted in changes in its corporate structure. The applicant claimed that the continued application of the measure at its current level was no longer necessary to offset dumping
Meanwhile, the EC received another request, limited in scope to the examination of dumping, lodged by a Chinese exporting producer, Dashiqiao Sanqiang Refractory Materials Company Limited (DSRM). The rate of the definitive antidumping duty applicable to products manufactured by DSRM is 27.7 percent. In its request for the interim review the applicant claimed that the circumstances on the basis of which the measure was imposed had changed and that these changes were of a lasting nature.
On June 20008, the EC published notices of initiations in the Official Journal of the European Union and commenced an investigation.
The investigation period of dumping for BRC covered the period from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008, while the investigation of dumping for DSRM was the period from January 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008.
In the light of the results of the review concerning BRC, the EC determined that it was appropriate to amend the antidumping duty applicable to imports of the product concerned from BRC to 0.0 percent.
On the other hand, DSRM's dumping margin expressed as a percentage of the net, free-at-Community-frontier price, duty unpaid, was found to be 14.4 percent.