Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72 of 18 January 2022 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of optical fibre cables originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2011 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in the People’s Republic of China

Article 1

The following products are excluded:

(i) cables in which all the optical fibres are individually fitted with operational connectors at one or both extremities; and

(ii) cables for submarine use. Cables for submarine use are plastic insulated optical fibre cables, containing a copper or aluminium conductor, in which fibres are contained in metal module(s).

The definitive countervailing 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

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2011 (²) is amended as follows:

(1) Article 1(2) is replaced by the following: ‘2. The rates 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 Definitive anti-dumping duty TARIC additional code FTT Group: — FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co., Ltd. — Nanjing Wasin Fujikura Optical Communication Ltd. — Hubei Fiberhome Boxin Electronic Co., Ltd. 33,7  % C696 ZTT Group: — Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology Co., Ltd. — Zhongtian Power Optical Cable Co., Ltd. 14,6  % C697 Other companies cooperating in both anti-subsidy and anti-dumping investigation listed in Annex I 23,4  % Other companies cooperating in the anti-dumping investigation but not in the anti-subsidy investigation listed in Annex II 20,9  % All other companies 33,7  % C999’

(2) a new Article 1(7) is inserted: ‘7. Should the definitive countervailing duties imposed by Article 1 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72 (^*1) be modified or removed, the duties specified in paragraph 2 or in Annexes I or II shall be increased by the same proportion limited to the actual dumping margin found or the injury margin found as appropriate per company and from the entry into force of this Regulation.

(3) a new Article 1(8) is inserted: ‘8. In cases where the countervailing duty has been subtracted from the anti-dumping duty for certain exporting producers, refund requests under Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1037 shall also trigger the assessment of the dumping margin for that exporting producer prevailing during the refund investigation period.’;

(4) Annex I is replaced by Annexes I and II to this Regulation.

Article 3

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.

ANNEX I

| Name of the company | TARIC additional code |

| --- | --- | | Dongjie Optical Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd | C700 | | Fasten Group: Jiangsu Fasten Optical Communication Technology Co., Ltd Jiangsu Fasten Optical Cable Co., Ltd | C701 | | Hangzhou Futong Communication Technology Co., Ltd | C702 | | Hangzhou Tuolima Network Technologies Co., Ltd | C703 | | Jiangsu Etern Co., Ltd | C704 | | Jiangsu Hengtong Group: Hengtong Optic-Electric Co., Ltd Guangdong Hengtong Optic-electronical Technology Co., Ltd Jiangsu Hengtong Smart Grids Co., Ltd Zhejiang Dongtong Optical Network and IOT Technology Co., Ltd | C705 | | Jiangsu Tongguang Optical Fiber Cable Co., Ltd | C706 | | LEONI Cable (China) Co., Ltd | C707 | | Nanjing Huamai Technology Co., Ltd | C708 | | Ningbo Geyida Cable Technology Co., Ltd | C709 | | SDG group: — Shenzhen SDG Information Co., Ltd — Shenzhen SDGI Optical Network Technologies co., Ltd | C725 | | Shanghai Qishen International Trade Co., Ltd | C712 | | Shenzhen Wanbao Optical Fiber Communication Co., Ltd | C713 | | Sichuan Huiyuan Optical Communications Co., Ltd | C714 | | Suzhou Furukawa Power Optic Cable Co., Ltd | C715 | | Suzhou Torres Optic-electric Technology Co., Ltd | C716 | | Twentsche (Nanjing) Fibre Optics Ltd | C717 | | XDK Communication Equipment (Huizhou) Ltd | C718 | | Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable group: — Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company — Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (Shanghai) Company Ltd — Yangtze Zhongli Optical Fibre and Cable (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd — Sichuan Lefei Optoelectronic Technology Company Limited — Everpro Technology Company Limited | C719 |

ANNEX II