Regulation 2009/52 - Commission Regulation 52/2009 initiating a new exporter review of Council Regulation (EC) No 1174/2005 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of hand pallet trucks and their essential parts from China, repealing the duty with regard to imports from one exporter in this country and making these imports subject to registration - Main contents

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 17/19

The Commission has received an application for a ‘new exporter’ review pursuant to Article 11(4) of the basic Regulation. The application was lodged by Crown Equipment (Suzhou) Co. Ltd (‘the applicant’), an exporting producer in the People’s Republic of China (‘the country concerned’).

The product under review is hand pallet trucks and their essential parts, i.e. chassis and hydraulics, originating in the People’s Republic of China, currently classifiable within CN codes ex 8427 90 00 and ex 8431 20 00. Hand pallet trucks are defined as trucks with wheels supporting lifting fork arms for handling pallets, designed to be manually pushed, pulled and steered, on smooth, level, hard surfaces, by a pedestrian operator using an articulated tiller. The hand pallet trucks are only designed to raise a load, by pumping the tiller, to a height sufficient for transporting and do not have any other additional functions or uses such as for example (i) to move and to lift the loads in order to place them higher or assist in storage of loads (high lifters); (ii) to stack one pallet above the other (stackers); (iii) to lift the load to a working level (scissor lifts); or (iv) to lift and to weigh the loads (weighing trucks) (‘the product concerned’).

The measures currently in force are a definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by Council Regulation (EC) No 1174/2005 (2) under which imports into the Community of the product concerned originating in the People’s Republic of China, including the product concerned produced by the applicant, are subject to a definitive anti-dumping duty of 46,7 % with the exception of several companies expressly mentioned which are subject to individual duty rates.

The applicant alleges that it operates under market economy conditions as defined in Article 2(7)(c) of the basic Regulation. It further alleges that it did not export the product concerned to the Community during the period of investigation on which the anti-dumping measures were based, i.e. the period from 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004 (‘the original investigation period’) and that it is not related to any of the exporting producers of the product which are subject to the abovementioned anti-dumping measures.

The applicant further alleges that it began exporting the product concerned to the Community after the end of the original investigation period.

Community producers known to be concerned have been informed of the above application and have been given an opportunity to comment. No comments have been received.

Having examined the evidence available, the Commission concludes that there is sufficient evidence to justify the initiation of a ‘new exporter’ review, pursuant to Article 11(4) of the basic...