
Article 1 

1. A definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of flat products of non-alloy or alloy steel (excluding stainless steel, silicon-electrical steel, tool steel and high-speed steel), hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated, not in coils, of a thickness exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 600 mm or more or of a thickness of 4,75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 2 050 mm or more currently falling within CN codes ex 7208 51 20, ex 7208 51 91, ex 7208 51 98, ex 7208 52 91, ex 7208 90 20, ex 7208 90 80, 7225 40 40, ex 7225 40 60 and ex 7225 99 00 (TARIC codes: 7208 51 20 10, 7208 51 91 10, 7208 51 98 10, 7208 52 91 10, 7208 90 20 10, 7208 90 80 20, 7225 40 60 10, 7225 99 00 35, 7225 99 00 40) and originating in the People's Republic of China.
2. The rates of the definitive anti-dumping duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, of the product described in paragraph 1 and produced by the companies listed below shall be as follows:
Company Duty (%) TARIC additional code
Nanjing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd 73,1 C143
Minmetals Yingkou Medium Plate Co., Ltd 65,1 C144
Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd and Wuyang New Heavy & Wide Steel Plate Co., Ltd 73,7 C145
Other cooperating companies listed in Annex 70,6 
All other companies 73,7 C999
3. Unless otherwise specified, the relevant provisions in force concerning customs duties shall apply.
Article 2 
The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1777 shall be definitively collected.
Article 3 
Where any new exporting producer in the People's Republic of China provides sufficient evidence to the Commission that:

— it did not export to the Union the product described in Article 1(1) during the investigation period (1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015),
— it is not related to any of the exporters or producers in the People's Republic of China which are subject to the measures imposed by this Regulation,
— it has actually exported to the Union the product concerned after the investigation period on which the measures are based, or it has entered into an irrevocable contractual obligation to export a significant quantity to the Union,
Article 1(2) shall be amended, after giving all interested parties the possibility to comment, by adding the new exporting producer to the cooperating companies not included in the sample and thus subject to the weighted average duty rate.
Article 4 
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, 27 February 2017.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

Chinese cooperating exporting producers not sampled:

Name City TARIC additional code
Angang Steel Company Limited Anshan, Liaoning C150
Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union Co., Ltd Baotou, Inner Mongolia C151
Zhangjiagang Shajing Heavy Plate Co., Ltd Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu C146
Jiangsu Tiangong Tools Company Limited Danyang, Jiangsu C155
Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel Works Co., Ltd Jiangyin, Jiangsu C147
Laiwu Steel Yinshan Section Co., Ltd Laiwu, Shandong C154
Nanyang Hanye Special Steel Co., Ltd Xixia, Henan C152
Qinhuangdao Shouqin Metal Materials Co., Ltd Qinhuangdao, Hebei C153
Shandong Iron & Steel Co., Ltd, Jinan Company Jinan, Shandong C149
Wuhan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd Wuhan, Hubei C156
Xinyu Iron & Steel Co., Ltd Xinyu, Jiangxi C148