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Article 1

United Kingdom

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1.

A definitive countervailing duty is imposed on imports of cycles, with pedal assistance, with an auxiliary electric motor, originating in the People's Republic of China, currently falling within CN codes 8711 60 10 and ex 8711 60 90 (TARIC code 8711 60 90 10).

2.

The rate of the definitive countervailing duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, of the products described in paragraph 1 and manufactured by the companies listed below shall be as follows:

CountryCompanyDefinitive countervailing dutyTARIC additional code
People's Republic of China Bodo Vehicle Group Co., Ltd.15,1 %C382
Giant Electric Vehicle (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.3,9 %C383
Jinhua Vision Industry Co., Ltd and Yongkang Hulong Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd8,5 %C384
Suzhou Rununion Motivity Co., Ltd17,2 %C385
Yadea Technology Group Co., Ltd10,7 %C463
Other cooperating companies listed in Annex I9,2 %See Annex I
Non-cooperating companies in the anti-subsidy investigation, but cooperating in the parallel anti-dumping investigation listed in Annex II17,2 %See Annex II
All other companies17,2 %C999
3.

The application of the individual countervailing duty rates specified for the companies mentioned in paragraph 2 shall be conditional upon presentation to the customs authorities of the Member States of a valid commercial invoice, on which shall appear a declaration dated and signed by an official of the entity issuing such invoice, identified by his/her name and function, drafted as follows: ‘I, the undersigned, certify that the (volume) electric bicycles for export to the European Union covered by this invoice were manufactured by (company name and address) (TARIC additional code) in the People's Republic of China. I declare that the information provided in this invoice is complete and correct.’ If no such invoice is presented, the duty rate applicable to ‘all other companies’ shall apply.

4.

Unless otherwise specified, the provisions in force concerning customs duties shall apply. The default interest to be paid in case of reimbursement that gives rise to a right to payment of default interest shall be the rate applied by the European Central Bank to its principal refinancing operations, as published in the C series of the Official Journal of the European Union, in force on the first calendar day of the month in which the deadline falls, increased by one percentage point.