Pre-Sampling Questionnaire (Brazilian Producer)
Transition review of anti-dumping measures
Case TD0035: Certain pneumatic tyres used for buses or lorries exported from the People's Republic of China

Period of Investigation:	1 January 2022 – 31 December 2022	
		
Injury Period:	1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022	
		
Deadline for response:	26 April 2024	
		
Case Team Contact:	TD0035@traderemedies.gov.uk  	
		
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When you have completed this form, indicate the confidentiality status of this document by placing an X in the relevant box below and in the header. We strongly recommend this questionnaire to be completed on the computer, so this step is easy to complete.

☐Confidential
☐Non-Confidential – will be made publicly available

Please note that you will have to provide two copies of your response – a Confidential and a Non-Confidential version. Both copies must be returned to the TRA using the Trade Remedies Service (www.trade-remedies.service.gov.uk) by 26 April 2024.

Table of Contents

The scope of this review	3
Instructions	4
Who should complete this form	4
Why you are being asked to complete this pre-sampling questionnaire	4
Deadline for response	5
Note about confidentiality	5
Section A – Activities of your company and any associated parties	6
A1 – Your company’s activities	6
A2 – Associated parties and operational links	7
Section B – Production and sales volumes	8
B1 – Production	8
B2 – Sales volume and value	8
B3 – Commodity codes	9
Section D – Additional information	10
D1 – Other interested parties	10
D2 – Any other information	10

The scope of this review
 
This review covers certain pneumatic tyres, new or retreaded, of rubber, of a kind used for buses and lorries, with a load index exceeding 121, exported from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These are referred to as the ‘goods subject to review’.

These goods are currently classifiable within the following commodity codes:
•	4011 20 90 00
•	4012 12 00 10

These commodity codes are only given for information. 

This pre-sampling questionnaire will ask about your production and sales of like goods. Any reference to ‘like goods’ in this pre-sampling questionnaire refers to goods which are like the goods subject to review in all respects, or with characteristics closely resembling them.

Please follow the instructions for each question to provide the appropriate information regarding the like goods.

For more information about this case, you may refer to the Notice of Initiation published at: www.trade-remedies.service.gov.uk/public/case/TD0035/

Instructions

The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) will be carrying out a transition review of the EU trade remedy measure which will consider whether the goods subject to review are being exported to the UK at prices less than their normal value and that this dumping (export price at less than normal value) is likely to cause injury to the UK industry for these goods if the anti-dumping amount no longer applied.  

Who should complete this form

You should complete this form if you are a Brazilian producer of the like goods.

Why you are being asked to complete this pre-sampling questionnaire
 
The TRA has received an allegation that a Particular Market Situation (PMS) exists in the PRC for certain pneumatic tyres used for buses or lorries. We have yet to make a determination in this review in relation to the allegation but to assist in calculating dumping margins, it may be necessary to use certain cost and sales data for similar goods produced and sold in another country.

The TRA has provisionally chosen Brazil as an appropriate representative third country in this review, as outlined in the notice published to the public file on 21 September 2023. 

We are therefore inviting producers in Brazil to participate in the review and to provide certain sales and cost data which will help us:
•	Understand costs, manufacturing and sales for this product; and,
•	Compare the data against figures from the PRC.

This pre-sampling questionnaire allows us to collect basic information and data about your company. If a large number of producers of the like goods from Brazil complete this pre-sampling questionnaire, we will use the information each one provides to help us decide which companies we want to sample for further involvement. If you are sampled, we will send you a more detailed questionnaire to complete.

Deadline for response

A completed pre-sampling questionnaire must be submitted to the TRA by no later than 26 April 2024. If you are unable to provide a completed submission by the given due date and you wish to request an extension, please contact the case team at TD0035@traderemedies.gov.uk and see the TRA’s guidance on extension requests for further information.

Note about confidentiality

You will need to submit one confidential version and one non-confidential version of your pre-sampling questionnaire by the due date.

Please ensure that each page of information you provide is clearly marked either “Confidential” or “Non-Confidential” in the header.

It is your responsibility to ensure that the non-confidential version does not contain any confidential information, which includes personal contact information, names and signatures.

Please see the TRA’s public guidance for further information on what can be considered confidential and how to prepare a non-confidential version of this questionnaire.

All information provided to the TRA in confidence will be treated accordingly and only used for this investigation (except in limited circumstance as permitted by regulation 46 of the Trade Remedies (Dumping and Subsidisation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019) and will be stored in protected systems. 

The non-confidential version of your submission will be placed on the public file, which is available on www.trade-remedies.service.gov.uk/public/case/TD0035/.
Section A – Activities of your company and any associated parties

A1 – Your company’s activities 

To determine your company’s role for the purpose of this review, please select the activity/activities of your company below. For a definition of the like goods please refer to above section 'the scope of this review’. 

☐ overseas producer of the like goods
☐ other (please give details below)  

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If you have selected ‘other’, please describe the role of your company with regards to the like goods:

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Please describe your interest in this review:

A2 – Associated parties and operational links

Please give details of all associated parties involved with the company in the production and sales (export and/or domestic) of the like goods during the POI. Both natural persons (individuals) and legal persons (e.g. companies) are considered to be associated where they meet the definition of ‘Related Persons’ in regulation 128 of the Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018.

Examples of activities could include manufacturing, exporting, purchasing, warehousing, sales (domestic), sales (export), further processing of the like goods.  

	Company name	Company location
(city, country)	Activities	Relationship	
Associated Party 1			

	
Associated Party 2		

		
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Section B – Production and sales volumes

B1 – Production

Please fill in your company’s total production volume and capacity for the like goods in the table below.

POI: 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2022	Volume
(number of tyres)	

Overall production of the like goods during the POI

Total production capacity of the like goods during the POI 

B2 – Sales volume and value

Please provide the total sales volumes and sales price values in the table below.

POI: 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2022	Volume
(number of tyres)	Value 
(GBP £)	
Total export sales of like goods during the POI manufactured by your company			
Total export sales of like goods during the POI not manufactured by your company 			
Total domestic sales of like goods
during the POI manufactured by your company			
Total domestic sales of like goods during the POI not manufactured by your company			

B3 – Commodity codes

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Please provide details of the commodity code(s) you export the goods subject to review to the UK under in the box below:

Section D – Additional information 

D1 – Other interested parties

If you believe there are other interested parties that should receive a questionnaire, please provide their organisation name and website details below. 

Organisation name	Website	

		

		

D2 – Any other information

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Please use the box below to provide information about anything else you consider relevant to this review.

Now you have reached the end of this questionnaire please ensure that you have prepared a confidential and non-confidential version and indicated the status of each within the header. The non-confidential version should redact personal contact information, names, signatures, and exact sales quotes. Redacted figures should be replaced with a range where possible. Please return both versions to the TRA using the Trade Remedies Service (trade-remedies.service.gov.uk)).