Proposal for a Council Implementing Regulation terminating the partial reopening of anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of ethanolamines originating in the United States of America and terminating the expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) and the partial interim review pursuant to Article 11(3) of Regulation (EC) 1225/2009

This proposal concerns the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 of 30 November 2009 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community ('the basic Regulation') in the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of ethanolamines originating in the United States of America ('USA').

This proposal is made in the context of the implementation of the basic Regulation and is the result of an investigation which was carried out in line with the substantive and procedural requirements laid out in the basic Regulation.

On 19 January 2010 and following a third expiry review investigation, the anti-dumping duties on imports of ethanolamines originating in the USA were prolonged for two more years by Council Regulation (EU) 54/2010. The Commission initiated an expiry review on 21 January 2012. A partial interim review limited to dumping as regards The Dow Chemical Company was initiated on 11 April 2012. By its judgment of 8 May 2012 the General Court annulled the Council Regulation insofar as it concerns the The Dow Chemical Company. On 18 October 2012, the Commission published a notice concerning the partial reopening of the anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of ethanolamines originating in the United States of America limited in scope to the implementation of the General Court judgment.

The attached proposal for a Council Regulation is based on the findings which brought the Commission to conclude that, on the basis of the verified information of the third expiry review investigation, the institutions could not have come to the conclusion that dumping had continued during the review investigation period, nor that there was a likelihood of continuation of dumping. Moreover, the institutions should also have concluded that there was was no likelihood of recurrence of dumping.

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