L 97/6 Official Journal of the European Union 12.4.2007 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 390/2007 of 11 April 2007 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of peroxosulphates (persulphates) originating in the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 38496 of 22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (') (the basic Regulation), and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas: A. PROCEDURE 1. Initiation On 31 May 2006, the Commission received a complaint concerning peroxosulphates (persulphates) originating in the United States of America (USA), the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan lodged pursuant to Article 5 of the basic Regulation by CEFIC (the complainant) on behalf of producers representing 100 % of the total Community production of persulphates. This complaint contained evidence of dumping and of material injury resulting therefrom, which was considered sufficient to justify the opening of a proceeding. On 13 July 2006, the proceeding was initiated by the publication of a notice of initiation in the Official Journal of the European Union (?). 2. Parties concerned by the proceeding The Commission officially advised the complainant Community producers, the exporting producers in the USA, the PRC and Taiwan, importers, traders, users, suppliers and associations known to be concerned, and the representatives of the USA, the PRC and Taiwan of the initiation of the proceeding. Interested parties were given the opportunity to make their views known in () OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2117/2005 (O] L 340, 23.12.2005, p. 17). () 0] C 162, 13.7.2006, p. 5. writing and to request a hearing within the time limit set in the notice of initiation. In order to allow exporting producers in the PRC to submit a claim for market economy treatment (MET) or individual treatment (IT), if they so wished, the Commission sent claim forms to the Chinese exporting producers known to be concerned and to other Chinese exporting producers that made themselves known within the deadlines set out in the notice of initiation. Six exporting producers together with their related sales companies, where appropriate, requested MET pursuant to Article 2(7) of the basic Regulation, or IT should the investigation establish that they did not meet the conditions for MET. In view of the apparent high number of exporting producers in the PRC the Commission indicated in the notice of initiation that sampling might be applied in this investigation for the determination of dumping and injury in accordance with Article 17 of the basic Regu- lation. In order to enable the Commission to decide whether sampling would be necessary and, if so, to select a sample, all exporting producers in the PRC were asked to make themselves known to the Commission and to provide, as specified in the notice of initiation, basic information on their activities related to the product concerned during the calendar year 2005. Given that only six exporting producers cooperated in the investigation, it was decided that sampling was not required. Questionnaires were sent to all parties known to be concerned and to all other companies that made them- selves known within the deadlines set out in the notice of initiation. Replies were received from six exporting producers in the PRC, two in the USA and one in Taiwan, and one producer in the analogue country, Turkey. Full questionnaire replies were also received from two Community producers and two importers cooperated by submitting a questionnaire reply. Furthermore, none of the users replied to the ques- tionnaire and no other users supplied the Commission with any information or made themselves known in the course of this investigation.