
Article 1 

1. A definitive countervailing duty is hereby 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 products 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.; Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone Jiaxinda International Trade Co., Ltd. 29,7 B312
Zhejiang Huadong Light Steel Building Material Co. Ltd.; Hangzhou P.R.P.T. Metal Material Co., Ltd. 23,8 B313
Angang Steel Company Ltd. 26,8 B314
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
Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union Co., Ltd. 26,8 B321
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 & 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
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.
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, 11 March 2013.
For the Council
The President
E. GILMORE