No L 155/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 22, 6. 94 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1418/94 of 20 June 1994 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of artificial corundum originating in the People’s Republic of China 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 subsi- dized imports from countries not members of the Euro- pean Economic Community ('), as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 522/94 (3), and in particular Article 10 (6) thereof, After consultation within the Advisory Committee, Whereas : A. PROCEDURE (1)  On 17 March 1990 the Commission published in the Official Journal of the European Communities a notice announcing the initiation of the following reviews (%) : — review of the anti-dumping measures applied to imports of artificial corundum originating in Czechoslovakia and the People’s Republic of China imposed by Commission Decision 84/650/EEC () (review pursuant to Article 15 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2423/88); — review of the anti-dumping measures applied to imports of artificial corundum originating in the Soviet Union, Hungary and Poland, imposed by Commission Decision 86/464/ EEC () (review pursuant to Article 14 of Regu- lation (EEC) No 2423/88); This was followed by an investigation of dumping and injury. (2  The product to which the review related is smelted aluminium oxide (also known as artificial corundum, which is a crystallized aluminium oxide). There are several varieties of artificial corundum, the main ones being brown artificial corundum, which contains 94 to 97 % aluminium () OJ No L 209, 2. 8. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No L 66, 10. 3. 1994, p. 10. ) OJ No C 67, 17. 3. 1990, p. 7. () OJ No L 340, 28. 12. 1984, p. 82. () OJ No L 271, 23. 9. 1986, p. 26. oxide (AI,O;), and white artificial corundum, which contains 97,5 to 99,5 % aluminium oxide. Both are classified under CN code 28181000 (artificial corundum). For the purposes of this review, they are regarded as a single product. (3) All the companies were informed of the main results of the investigation and were given the opportunity to make their views known. It was esta- blished that dumping was occurring, that the dumped imports were causing injury to the Community industry and that the interests of the latter required definitive duties to be imposed. Commission Decision 91/512/EEC () accepted a price undertaking from all the exporters with which the review dealt, with the Peking Chamber of Commerce acting as a joint signatory of the undertaking. . (4  No residual anti-dumping duty was imposed as a result of the proceeding, as at the time the compa- nies which had given the undertakings had an export monopoly. It subsequently emerged that the Soviet company had lost its monopoly and that Chinese exports had started to come from compa- nies that the Commission had not previously encountered. To accommodate these changed circumstances, Council Regulation (EEC) No 2552/93 () imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on all imports of artificial corundum from China, the Russian Federation and Ukraine except those from the companies from which undertakings had already been accepted. This meant that the 30,8 % anti-dumping duty on Chinese goods did not apply to the exports of : — CMEC-China National Machinery and Equip- ment Import and Export Co., Beijing, — The second abrasive wheel factory of China, Zhengzhou, Henan, — Mount Tai Co. of the fourth Grinding Wheel factory of China, Zhangdian, ZiBo, Sha Dong, () OJ No L 275, 2. 10. 1991, p. 27. () O] No L 235, 18. 9. 1993, p. 1.