The European Commission imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of flat rolled aluminium products from China and suspended it on the same day for nine months. The implementing regulation and the implementing act were published on Monday 11 October in the Official Journal of the EU to enter into force the following day.
By April 2021, the EU had introduced provisional tariffs on these products ranging from 19.3 to 46.7% (see EUROPE 12696/14). After an investigation determined that Chinese imports are injuring the European industry through price undercutting, the Commission decided to make these tariffs definitive for a period of five years. These now range from 14.3% to 24.6%.
However, exceptional changes in the market led the Commission to suspend these tariffs for nine months. It concluded that market conditions had changed after the original investigation period, but that this change was temporary. The anti-dumping duties will therefore come into force on 11 July 2022.
See the implementing regulation imposing definitive duties: https://bit.ly/3lt5Afl
See the implementing act suspending them: https://bit.ly/3lt5Afl (Original version in French by Léa Marchal)