Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/353 of 3 March 2020 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of steel road wheels originating in the People’s Republic of China

Article 1

• — Road tractors,

• — Motor vehicles for the transport of persons and/or the transport of goods,

• — Special purpose motor vehicles (for example, fire fighting vehicles, spraying lorries),

• — Trailers or semi-trailers, not mechanically propelled, of the above listed vehicles

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

The following products are excluded:

• — Road wheels of steel for the industrial assembly of pedestrian-controlled tractors currently falling under subheading 8701 10 ,

• — Wheels for road quad bikes,

• — Wheel centres in star form, cast in one piece, of steel,

• — 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),

• — Wheels for passenger car trailers and for caravans, not mechanically propelled, with a rim diameter of not more than 16 inches,

• — Wheels for trailers or semi-trailers, specifically designed for uses other than on public roads (for example, wheels for agricultural trailers and other trailed agricultural equipment used in fields).

Article 2

The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1693 shall be definitively collected.

Article 3

Where any producer from the People’s Republic of China provides sufficient evidence to the Commission that

• (i) it did not export the goods described in Article 1(1) originating in the People’s Republic of China during the period of investigation (1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018),

• (ii) it is not related to an exporter or producer subject to the measures imposed by this Regulation; and

• (iii) it has either actually exported the goods 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,

the Commission may amend the Annex in order to attribute to that producer the duty applicable to cooperating producers not in the sample, i.e. 50,3 %.

Article 4

Where a declaration for release for free circulation is presented in respect of the products referred to in Article 1(1), irrespective of their origin, the number of items of the products imported shall be entered in the relevant field of that declaration.

Member States shall, on a monthly basis, inform the Commission of the number of items imported under TARIC codes 8708701080 , 8708701085 , 8708709920 , 8708709980 , 8716909095 and 8716909097 , and of their origin.

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.

ANNEX

Chinese cooperating exporting producers not sampled