Proposal for a Council Implementing Regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate originating in India, Taiwan and Thailand following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009, and terminating the expiry review proceeding concerning imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate originating in Indonesia and Malaysia

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'), and in particular Articles 9(2), 9(4) and 11(2) thereof in the expiry review of the anti-dumping duty in force on imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate originating in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.

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.

By Regulation (EC) No 2604/2000, the Council imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate ('PET') originating in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. Following an expiry review, the Council by Regulation (EC) No 192/2007, imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty for a further period of five years. The anti-dumping measures were subsequently amended by Council Regulation 1286/2008 pursuant to Article 19 of the Council Regulation (EC) No 597/2009 on protection against subsidised import from countries not members of the European Community ('the basic anti-subsidy Regulation'). A later interim review pursuant to Article 11(3) of the basic Regulation amended the measures in force by Council Implementing Regulation No 906/2011.

By Decision 2000/745/EC, as amended from time to time, the Commission accepted undertakings setting a minimum import price offered by three exporting producers in India.

In parallel to the measures against the countries concerned, anti-dumping duties exist against imports of PET from China (extended in November 2010) and countervailing measures are in force since September 2010 against imports of PET originating in Iran, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. Anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations against Oman and Saudi Arabia were closed in 2011 following a withdrawal of the complaint.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)234: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:234:FIN

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