European Commission announced that it has amended the imposition of definitive antidumping duties on imports of certain magnesia bricks originating in China, in concern with two companies.

Subsequent to the imposition of definitive measures on imports of certain magnesia bricks originating in China since 2005, the EC received an application to initiate a partial interim review from a Chinese exporting producer, Bayuquan Refractories Company Limited. The applicant did not participate in the investigation which led to the findings and conclusions laid down in the original investigation and therefore the residual antidumping duty of 39.9% is applied to it.

Meanwhile, the EC received another request, limited in scope to the examination of dumping, lodged by a Chinese exporting producer, Dashiqiao Sanqiang Refractory Materials Company Limited. The rate of the definitive antidumping duty applicable to products manufactured by DSRM is 27.7%.

On June 2008, the EC published notices of initiations in the Official Journal of the European Union and commenced an investigation. The investigation period of dumping for BRC covered the period from April 1st 2007 to March 31st 2008, while the investigation of dumping for DSRM was the period from January 1st 2007 to March 31st 2008.

In the light of the results of the review concerning BRC, the EC determined that it was appropriate to amend the antidumping duty applicable to imports of the product concerned from BRC to 0.0%.

On the other hand, DSRM's dumping margin expressed as a percentage of the net, free at Community frontier price, duty unpaid, was found to be 14.4%.