On July 2009, Regulations (EC) No 598/2009 and 599/2009 were published in the Official Journal of the EU. Those acts have established, respectively, a definitive countervailing and a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of biodiesel originating from the USA (see our articolo), and collecting definitively the provisional duties established with Regulations (EC) n. 193/2009 and 194/2009.

With the implementing Regulations (EU) No 443/2011 and No 444/2011 of the Council, of 5 May 2011, said countervailing and anti-dumping duties are now been extended from the import of biodiesel in pure form to those in blend containing a percentage (in weight) equal or inferior to 20% of biodiesel originating from U.S.A. The same duties apply also to the biodiesel consigned from Canada, whether declared as originating in this Country or not, with the only exclusion of the biodiesel produced by the companies listed to the article 1 of both the Regulations and with the possibility to ask to the EU Commission a specific exemption from duties by those companies that have not circumvented the countervailing and anti-dumping measures established by the Regulations of 2009.

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With the Communication (2011/C 137/01), the EU Commission has issued a new version of the explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature (CN). The CN is based on the Harmonized System (HS) of description and coding of goods (regulated by an International Convention concluded in Brussels on 14 June 1983), a numeric Code of 6 digits which represents the main system of classification of goods at global level, administered by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and available in the section "Public Documents" of our web site.

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