
Article 1 
An investigation is initiated pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036, in order to determine if imports into the Union of ceramic tableware and kitchenware, excluding ceramic condiment or spice mills and their ceramic grinding parts, ceramic coffee mills, ceramic knife sharpeners, ceramic sharpeners, ceramic kitchen tools to be used for cutting, grinding, grating, slicing, scraping and peeling, and cordierite ceramic pizza-stones of a kind used for baking pizza or bread, currently falling under CN codes ex 6911 10 00, ex 6912 00 21, ex 6912 00 23, ex 6912 00 25 and ex 6912 00 29 (TARIC codes 6911 10 00 90, 6912 00 21 11, 6912 00 21 91, 6912 00 23 10, 6912 00 25 10 and 6912 00 29 10) and originating in the People's Republic of China, imported under the TARIC additional codes listed in Annex, are circumventing the measures imposed by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) (No) 412/2013.
Article 2 
The Customs authorities shall, pursuant to Article 13(3) and Article 14(5) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036, take the appropriate steps to register the imports into the Union declared under the TARIC additional codes listed in Annex of this Regulation.
Registration shall expire nine months following the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
Article 3 

1. Interested parties must make themselves known by contacting the Commission within 15 days from the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
2. Interested parties, if their representations are to be taken into account during the investigation, must present their views in writing and submit questionnaire replies or any other information within 37 days from the date of the publication of this Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union, unless otherwise specified.
3. Interested parties may also apply to be heard by the Commission within the same 37-day time-limit.
4. Information submitted to the Commission for the purpose of trade defence investigations shall be free from copyrights. Interested parties, before submitting to the Commission information and/or data which is subject to third party copyrights, must request specific permission to the copyright holder explicitly allowing (a) the Commission to use the information and data for the purpose of this trade defence proceeding and (b) to provide the information and/or data to interested parties to this investigation in a form that allows them to exercise their right of defence.
5. All written submissions, including the information requested in this Regulation, completed questionnaires and correspondence provided by interested parties for which confidential treatment is requested shall be labelled ‘Limited’. Parties submitting information in the course of this investigation are invited to reason their request for confidential treatment.
6. Parties providing ‘Limited’ information are required to furnish non-confidential summaries of it pursuant to Article 19(2) of the basic Regulation, which will be labelled ‘For inspection by interested parties’. Those summaries should be sufficiently detailed to permit a reasonable understanding of the substance of the information submitted in confidence.
7. If a party providing confidential information fails to show good cause for a confidential treatment request or does not furnish a non-confidential summary of it in the requested format and quality, the Commission may disregard such information unless it can be satisfactorily demonstrated from appropriate sources that the information is correct.
8. Interested parties are invited to make all submissions and requests by e-mail including scanned powers of attorney and certification sheets, with the exception of voluminous replies which shall be submitted on a CD-R or DVD by hand or by registered mail. By using e-mail, interested parties express their agreement with the rules applicable to electronic submissions contained in the document ‘CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN TRADE DEFENCE CASES’ published on the website of the Directorate-General for Trade: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2011/june/tradoc_148003.pdf. The interested parties must indicate their name, address, telephone and a valid e-mail address and they should ensure that the provided e-mail address is a functioning official business e-mail which is checked on a daily basis. Once contact details are provided, the Commission will communicate with interested parties by e-mail only, unless they explicitly request to receive all documents from the Commission by another means of communication or unless the nature of the document to be sent requires the use of a registered mail. For further rules and information concerning correspondence with the Commission including principles that apply to submissions by e-mail, interested parties should consult the communication instructions with interested parties referred to above.Commission address for correspondence:European CommissionDirectorate-General for TradeDirectorate HOffice: CHAR 04/0391049 BrusselsBELGIUME-mail: TRADE-R700@ec.europa.eu
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, 21 March 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

TARIC Additional Code Company Name Current duty rate (%)
B351 CHL Porcelain Industries Ltd 23,4
B353 Guangxi Province Beiliu City Laotian Ceramics Co., Ltd 22,9
B359 Beiliu Changlong Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B360 Beiliu Chengda Ceramic Co., Ltd 17,9
B362 Beiliu Jiasheng Porcelain Co., Ltd 17,9
B383 Chaozhou Chengxi Jijie Art & Craft Painted Porcelain Fty. 17,9
B437 Guangdong Jinqiangyi Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B446 Chaozhou Lianjun Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B454 Chaozhou New Power Co., Ltd 17,9
B484 Chaozhou Xinde Ceramics Craft Factory 17,9
B492 Chaozhou Yaran Ceramics Craft Making Co., Ltd 17,9
B508 Dehua Kaiyuan Porcelain Industry Co., Ltd 17,9
B511 Dongguan Kennex Ceramic Ltd 17,9
B514 Evershine Fine China Co., Ltd 17,9
B517 Far East (Boluo) Ceramics Factory Co., Ltd 17,9
B519 Fengfeng Mining District Yuhang Ceramic Co. Ltd (‘Yuhang’) 17,9
B543 Fujian Dehua Rongxin Ceramic Co., Ltd 17,9
B548 Fujian Dehua Xingye Ceramic Co., Ltd 17,9
B549 Fujian Dehua Yonghuang Ceramic Co., Ltd 17,9
B554 Fujian Jackson Arts and Crafts Co., Ltd 17,9
B556 Profit Cultural & Creative Group Corporation 17,9
B560 Fujian Quanzhou Shunmei Group Co., Ltd 17,9
B579 Guangxi Beiliu Guixin Porcelain Co., Ltd 17,9
B583 Guangxi Beiliu Rili Porcelain Co.,Ltd 17,9
B592 Hebei Dersun Ceramic Co., Ltd 17,9
B599 Hunan Fungdeli Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B602 Hunan Huawei China Industry Co., Ltd 17,9
B610 Hunan Wing Star Ceramic Co., Ltd 17,9
B619 Joyye Arts & Crafts Co., Ltd 17,9
B627 Liling GuanQian Ceramic Manufacture Co., Ltd 17,9
B635 Liling Liuxingtan Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B639 Liling Rongxiang Ceramic Co., Ltd 17,9
B641 Liling Santang Ceramics Manufacturing Co., Ltd 17,9
B645 Liling Top Collection Industrial Co., Ltd 17,9
B656 Meizhou Gaoyu Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B678 Ronghui Ceramic Co., Ltd Liling Hunan China 17,9
B682 Shandong Zhaoding Porcelain Co., Ltd 17,9
B687 Shenzhen Donglin Industry Co., Ltd 17,9
B692 Shenzhen Fuxingjiayun Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B693 Shenzhen Good-Always Imp. & Exp. Co. Ltd 17,9
B712 Tangshan Daxin Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B724 Tangshan Redrose Porcelain Products Co., Ltd 17,9
B742 Xuchang Jianxing Porcelain Products Co., Ltd 17,9
B751 Yuzhou Huixiang Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B752 Yuzhou Ruilong Ceramics Co., Ltd 17,9
B756 Zibo Boshan Shantou Ceramic Factory 17,9
B759 Zibo Fuxin Porcelain Co., Ltd 17,9
B762 Zibo Jinxin Light Industrial Products Co., Ltd 17,9
B956 Liling Taiyu Porcelain Industries Co., Ltd 17,9
B957 Liling Xinyi Ceramics Industry Ltd 17,9