The Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry officially announced the filing of the case and decided to launch an anti-dumping investigation into TBR products originating in China, Thailand, India and Indonesia.
In order to do a good job in the anti-dumping response before the time point required by the Egyptian investigation authorities (30 days after October 10, 2019), the China Rubber Industry Association recently issued a notice to the tire enterprises involved in the case to carry out the response work, and solicited the opinions of the enterprises on whether to defend the industry damage.
It is understood that the China Oak Association has collected and collated the details of the case, matters needing attention, characteristics of response in Egypt, and coping strategies, as well as the case analysis opinions of four law firms that expressed concern about the case. I hope that through the professional analysis of lawyers to help enterprises further understand the case and better organize enterprises to deal with it.
The China Oak Association has learned that this is the second time that Egypt has initiated anti-dumping against Chinese tires. The first was initiated by the prosecution Alexandria Tire Co on September 9, 2006. According to the request of the prosecution, the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry launched an anti-dumping investigation against Chinese truck and bus tires (Tyres for buses and lorries). The customs code of the product under investigation is 40112000.
It is reported that any anti-dumping duty given to Chinese tire enterprises by the first Egyptian anti-dumping investigation has no legal statute of limitations, and the anti-dumping duty rate will be re-approved after this anti-dumping investigation.
Case introduction
The products under investigation this time are "new rubber pneumatic tires for passenger cars or trucks other than light trucks (pick-up trucks)", and the customs duty number of the products involved is 4011200010.
The time of anti-dumping investigation is from October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019, and the time of injury investigation is from January 1, 2016 to September 30, 2019.
The survey was initiated by Prometeon Tire Group, an Egyptian company. The company acquired Egyptian tire maker AlexandriaTire Co. (the first anti-dumping prosecution), which accounts for 98% of Egypt's total domestic production of similar products.
In the application, the prosecution accused Chinese companies of dumping margins as high as 75 per cent, Thailand 22 per cent, India 14 per cent and Indonesia 119 per cent.
Egypt recognizes China's market economy status, and the dumping margin is based on the reasonable adjustment of the costs of Chinese production enterprises, domestic prices and export prices to Egypt.
The prosecution alleges that the export of TBR tires from the four countries to Egypt has increased significantly in the past four years, resulting in lower market share and profits of the prosecution, suppression of reasonable price growth, failure to achieve reasonable growth in sales, and substantial damage to Egypt's domestic industry.
China Oak Association reminder
During the period of the anti-dumping investigation in this case, from October 2018 to September 2019, all Chinese companies exporting TBR tires to Egypt were accused of dumping. If you fail or fail to respond to the lawsuit, you will be subject to a punitive maximum anti-dumping duty rate. Be sure to choose your own firm to respond to the lawsuit before the deadline. If you have not received the questionnaire sent by the Egyptian investigation authorities, please obtain the questionnaire from the Egyptian investigation authorities by yourself or by contacting a lawyer as soon as possible.
