No L 41/50 Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 2. 94 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 10 January 1994 terminating the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of gum rosin originating in the People’s Republic of China (94/82/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2423/88 of 11 July 1988 on protection against dumped or sub- sidized imports from countries not members of the Euro- pean Economic Community ('), and in particular Article 9 thereof, _ After consultation within the Advisory Committee, Whereas : 1 A. PROCEEDING In May 1992, the Commission received a complaint lodged by the ‘Associagdo dos Industriais Exporta- dores de Produtos Resinosos’ (AIEPR) (hereinafter referred to as ‘the complainant’) on behalf of its member companies whose collective output of gum rosin apparently constituted a major proportion of the total Community production of the product in question. The complaint contained evidence of the existence of dumping on imports of the product concerned originating in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and of material injury resulting therefrom, which was considered sufficient to justify the opening of a proceeding. The Commission therefore announced, in a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Communities(?), the initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports into the Com- munity of the product in question, which falls within CN code 3806 10 10. () OJ No L 209, 2. 8. 1988, p. 1. () O] No C 195, 1. 8. 1992, p. 5. ®) ) ©) O] The Commission officially advised the exporters and importers known to be concerned, the rep- resentatives of the exporting country and the complainant. It also gave the interested parties the opportunity to make their views known in writing and to request a hearing. The Commission requested and received detailed written comments from the Community producers, the Chinese exporters and a number of importers. The Commission sought and verified all the infor- mation it considered necessary for the purposes of a preliminary determination of dumping and carried out investigations at the premises of the following : (a) Community producers : — Socer — Sociedade Central de Resinas SA, Lisbon, Portugal, — Lagoa, Henriques & Pedroso Lda, Pedrégio Grande, Portugal, — Resipez — Industria & Comeércio de Resinas Lda, Leiria, Portugal, — Mariano Lopes Morgado & Companhia Lda, Arganil, Portugal, — Manuel Inicio Pimpio & Filhos Lda, Maceira Lis, Portugal. These Community producers are all members of the complainant. (b) Importers in the Community : — Abieta Chemie GmbH, Augsburg, Germany, — Hermann Ter Hell & Co. Germany, : — Hercules BV, Rijswijk, Netherlands, — Integrated Chemicals BV, Lisse, Nether- lands. Hamburg, The Commission’s questionnaire was sent to the seven Chinese exporters known on the initiation of the proceeding. Those exporters all replied to the questionnaire.