17.12.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 338/11 COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1343/2013 of 12 December 2013 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of peroxosulphates (persulphates) originating in the People’s Republic of China following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 of 30 November 2009 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (') (the basic Regulation’), and in particular Article 9(4) and Article 11(2), (5) and (6) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission after consulting the Advisory Committee, Whereas: A. PROCEDURE 1. Measures in force (1) Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2007 (3 imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of persulphates originating in the People’s Republic of China (‘the PRC), Taiwan and the United States of America (‘the original investigation’ and ‘the original measures). The measures with regard to the PRC took the form of an ad valorem duty of 71,8 % for all companies except two Chinese exporting producers to whom individual duties were granted. 2. Initiation of an expiry review (20 On 10 October 2012, the Commission announced by a notice (Notice of initiation’) (*), published in the Official Journal of the European Union, the initiation of an expiry review of the anti-dumping measures applicable to imports of persulphates originating in the PRC. (3)  The review was initiated following a substantiated request lodged by two European producers, RheinPerChemie GmbH & Co. KG and United Initiators GmbH & Co. KG (the applicants), representing 100 % of the total Union production of persulphates. 0] L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 51. () O] L 265, 11.10.2007, p. 1. 0J C 305, 10.10.2012, p. 15. ) The request was based on the grounds that the expiry of the measures would be likely to result in a recurrence of dumping and injury to the Union industry. 3. Investigation 3.1. Review investigation period and period considered The investigation of a continuation or recurrence of dumping covered the period from 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012 (the review investigation period’ or ‘RIP"). The examination of the trends relevant for the assessment of the likelihood of a continuation or recurrence of injury covered the period from 1 January 2009 to the end of the RIP (‘the period considered). 3.2. Parties concerned by the investigation The Commission officially advised the applicants, exporting producers in the PRC, unrelated importers and users known to be concerned, producers in the potential analogue countries and the representatives of the PRC of the initiation of the expiry review. Interested parties were given the opportunity to make their views known in writing and to request a hearing within the time limit set out in the Notice of initiation. In view of the potentially large number of exporting producers in the PRC and unrelated importers in the Union involved in the investigation, sampling was envisaged in the Notice of Initiation, in accordance with Article 17 of the basic Regulation. In order to enable the Commission to decide whether sampling would be necessary and, if so, to select a sample, the above parties were invited, under Article 17 of the basic Regulation, to make themselves known within 15 days of the publication of the notice of initiation and to provide the Commission with the information requested in the Notice of initiation. None of the importers made itself known. Only one exporting producer from the PRC replied to the questionnaire. Therefore, it was not necessary to select a sample of exporting producers.