
Article 1 

1. A definitive anti-dumping duty is hereby imposed on imports of hand pallet trucks and their essential parts, i.e. chassis and hydraulics, currently falling within CN codes ex 8427 90 00 (TARIC codes 8427 90 00 11, 8427 90 00 13 and 8427 90 00 19) and ex 8431 20 00 (TARIC codes 8431 20 00 11, 8431 20 00 13 and 8431 20 00 19), originating in the People's Republic of China as extended to the same product but presented at import with a so-called ‘weight indication system’ consisting of a weighing mechanism not integrated in the chassis, that is to say not integrated in the forks, currently falling within TARIC codes 8427 90 00 30 and 8431 20 00 50. For the purpose of this Regulation, hand pallet trucks shall be 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).
2. The rate of the definitive anti-dumping duty applicable to the net free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, for the products described in paragraph 1 and produced by the companies listed below shall be as follows:
Company Rate of duty (%) TARIC additional code
Zhejiang Noblelift Equipment Joint Stock Co. Ltd, 58, Jing Yi Road, Economic Development Zone, Changxing, Zhejiang Province, 31300, PRC. 70,8 A603
Ningbo Logitrans Handling Equipment Co., Ltd, 54,1 A070
All other companies 70,8 A999
3. Unless otherwise specified, the provisions in force concerning customs duties shall apply.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force 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.Done at Brussels, 29 November 2017.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER