21. 7. 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 186/11 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1783/94 of 18 July 1994 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of furfuraldehyde 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 (%, and in particular Article 11 thereof, After consultations within the Advisory Committee, Whereas : A. PROCEDURE (1) In January 1993, the Commission received a complaint lodged by Furfural Espaiiol, S. A, the only producer of furfuraldehyde in the Community. The complaint contained evidence of dumping of the said product originating in the People’s Republic of China and of material injury resulting therefrom which was considered sufficient to justify the initiation of a proceeding. (2 The Commission accordingly announced, by a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Communities(®), the initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of furfuraldehyde originating in the People’s Republic of China, falling within the CN code 293212 00, and it commenced an investigation. (3) The Commission officially notified the exporters and importers known to be concerned and the representatives of the exporting country of the initiation of the proceeding and gave the parties concerned the opportunity to make their views known in writing and to request a hearing. t (4)  Representatives of the main Chinese exporter, ~ China National Chemical Import & Export Corpo- () OJ No L 209, 2. 8. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No L 66, 10. 3. 1994, p. 10. () OJ No C 208, 31. 7. 1993, p. 8. ©) (6 ? ®) ® ration Sinochem, Beijing, were granted a hearing and made their views known in writing. The Commission sought and verified all the infor- mation it deemed to be necessary for the purpose of a preliminary determination and carried out investigations at the premises of the following: (a) Community producer: — Furfural Espafiol S.A., Alcantarilla, Spain, (b) Importers in the Community : — Quaker Oats Chemicals Inc, Antwerp, Belgium (unrelated importer). Otto Aldag GmbH & Co., Germany, an unrelated importer, made its views known in writing and requested a hearing, which the Commission granted. Limited information has been supplied by two other importers: I.C. Chemikalien GmbH, Germany, and COPCI, France. Sinochem, which was, until the end of 1992, the sole and is still the main Chinese trading organiza- tion exporting furfuraldehyde to the Community, replied to the Commission’s questionnaire. The Commission has received information that from 1 January 1993 a number of other Chinese producers or exporters began selling the product concerned to the Community. The Commission has received no cooperation from any of these companies. As Argentina has been used as an analogue country for the purpose of calculating normal value, (see recitals 14 and 15) the Commission conducted an investigation at the premises of two Argentinian producers of furfuraldehyde. The investigation of dumping covered the period from 1 July 1992 to 30 June 1993 the ‘investiga- tion period’. B. PRODUCT UNDER INVESTIGATION 1. Description of the product concerned The product concerned is furfuraldehyde, a light yellow liquid with a characteristic pungent odour, which is obtained by processing different kinds of agricultural waste. Its two main applications are as a