
Article 1 

1. A definitive countervailing duty is imposed on imports of certain organic coated steel products, i.e. flat-rolled products of non-alloy and alloy steel (not including stainless steel) which are painted, varnished or coated with plastics on at least one side, excluding so-called ‘sandwich panels’ of a kind used for building applications and consisting of two outer metal sheets with a stabilising core of insulation material sandwiched between them, excluding those products with a final coating of zinc-dust (a zinc-rich paint, containing by weight 70 % or more of zinc), and excluding those products with a substrate with a metallic coating of chromium or tin, currently falling within CN codes ex 7210 70 80, ex 7212 40 80, ex 7225 99 00, ex 7226 99 70 (TARIC codes 7210 70 80 11, 7210 70 80 91, 7212 40 80 01, 7212 40 80 21, 7212 40 80 91, 7225 99 00 11, 7225 99 00 91, 7226 99 70 11 and 7226 99 70 91), and originating in the People's Republic of China.
2. The rate of the definitive countervailing duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty, of the product described in paragraph 1 and manufactured by the companies listed below shall be as follows:
Company Duty (%) TARIC Additional Code
Union Steel China 13,7 B311
Zhangjiagang Panhua Steel Strip Co., Ltd, Chongqing Wanda Steel Strip Co., Ltd, and Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone Jiaxinda International Trade Co., Ltd 29,7 B312
Zhejiang Huadong Light Steel Building Material Co. Ltd and Hangzhou P.R.P.T. Metal Material Company, Ltd 23,8 B313
Angang Steel Company Limited 26,8 B314
Anyang Iron Steel Co., Ltd 26,8 B315
Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd 26,8 B316
Baoutou City Jialong Metal Works Co., Ltd 26,8 B317
Changshu Everbright Material Technology Co., Ltd 26,8 B318
Changzhou Changsong Metal Composite Material Co., Ltd 26,8 B319
Cibao Modern Steel Sheet Jiangsu Co., Ltd 26,8 B320
Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union Co., Ltd 26,8 B321
Jiangyin Ninesky Technology Co., Ltd 26,8 B322
Jiangyin Zhongjiang Prepainted Steel Mfg Co., Ltd 26,8 B323
Jigang Group Co., Ltd 26,8 B324
Maanshan Iron&Steel Company Limited 26,8 B325
Qingdao Hangang Color Coated Sheet Co., Ltd 26,8 B326
Shandong Guanzhou Co., Ltd 26,8 B327
Shenzen Sino Master Steel Sheet Co., Ltd 26,8 B328
Tangshan Iron And Steel Group Co., Ltd 26,8 B329
Tianjin Xinyu Color Plate Co., Ltd 26,8 B330
Wuhan Iron And Steel Company Limited 26,8 B331
Wuxi Zhongcai New Materials Co., Ltd 26,8 B332
Xinyu Iron And Steel Co., Ltd 26,8 B333
Zhejiang Tiannu Color Steel Co., Ltd 26,8 B334
All other companies 44,7 B999
3. Unless otherwise specified, the provisions in force concerning customs duties shall apply.
4. The application of the individual countervailing duty rates specified for the companies listed in paragraph 2 shall be conditional upon presentation of a valid commercial invoice to the customs authorities of the Member States. On the commercial invoice shall appear a declaration dated and signed by an official of the entity issuing such invoice, identified by his/her name and function, drafted as follows: ‘I, the undersigned, certify that the (volume) of certain organic coated steels sold for export to the European Union covered by this invoice was manufactured by (company name and address) (TARIC additional code) in the (country concerned). I declare that the information provided in this invoice is complete and correct.’ If no such invoice is presented, the duty rate applicable to ‘all other companies’ shall apply.
Article 2 
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.Done at Brussels, 2 May 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER