Ministry of Commerce on Initiation of Anti-dumping Investigation: Certain Iron o

Ministry of Commerce decides to initiate an anti-dumping investigation against the imported certain iron or steel fasteners originating from the European Community. Relevant matters are now announced as follows: The period of dumping investigation is July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008 and the period of industry injury investigation is January 1, 2005 to September 30, 2008. The scope of the product under investigation is imported certain iron or steel fasteners, i.e. wood screws, self-tapping screws, other screws and bolts with heads (whether or not with their nuts or washers, but excluding screws and bolts for fixing railway track construction material and excluding screws of shank thickness not exceeding 6mm) and washers, originating in the European Community, normally declared within PRC Customs Import Tariff Codes 73181200, 73181400, 73181500, 73182100 and 73182200. These tariff codes are only given for information.This investigation starts on December 29, 2008, and usually will be ended before December 29, 2009. It may be prolonged to June 29, 2010 in case of particularity.