Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1693 of 9 October 2019 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of steel road wheels originating in the People’s Republic of China

Article 1

A provisional anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of road wheels of steel, whether or not with their accessories and whether or not fitted with tyres, designed for:

(1) Road tractors;

(2) Motor vehicles for the transport of persons and/or the transport of goods;

(3) Special purpose motor vehicles (for example, fire fighting vehicles, spraying lorries);

(4) Trailers or semi-trailers, not mechanically propelled, of road tractors

originating in the People’s Republic of China, currently falling within CN codes ex 8708 70 10 , ex 8708 70 99 , ex 8716 90 90 (TARIC codes 8708701080 , 8708701085 , 8708709920 , 8708709980 , 8716909095 , and 8716909097 ) (‘the product concerned’).

The following products are excluded:

(1) Road wheels of steel for the industrial assembly of pedestrian-controlled tractors currently falling under subheading 8701 10 ;

(2) Wheels for road quad bikes;

(3) Wheel centres in star form, cast in one piece, of steel;

(4) Wheels for motor vehicles, specifically designed for uses other than on public roads (for example, wheels for agricultural tractors or forestry tractors, for forklifts, for pushback tractors, for dumpers designed for off-highway use);

(5) Wheels for passenger car trailers, caravans, agricultural trailers and other trailed agricultural equipment used in fields, with a rim diameter of maximum 16 inches.

The rates of the provisional 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:

Article 2

Article 3

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

Article 1 shall apply for a period of six months.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

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