Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/558 of 6 April 2022 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain graphite electrode systems originating in the People’s Republic of China

Article 1

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:

Article 2

The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1812 shall be definitively collected on the product as defined in Article 1(1) above. The amounts secured in relation to the imports of the excluded products (namely, imports of graphite electrodes of a kind used for electric furnaces, with an apparent density of 1,5 g/cm³ or more and an electrical resistance of 7,0 μ.Ω.m or less, whether or not equipped with nipples, with a nominal diameter of 350 mm or less) shall be released.

Article 3

Article 1 (2) may be amended to add new exporting producers from 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) during the period of investigation (1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020);

(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.

Article 4

Article 1 (2) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1812 is amended as follows:

‘Nantong Yangzi Carbon Co., Ltd.’

is replaced by

‘Nantong Yangzi Carbon Group composed of three producers: Nantong Yangzi Carbon Co., Ltd.; Nantong Jiangdong Carbon Co. Ltd.; Wulanchabu Xufeng Carbon Technology Co. Ltd.’

Article 5

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.

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