Date: 2025-10-03Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: Europe
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1985 of 2 October 2025 correcting Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in India and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3014 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in India
Issued by European Commission
· Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security
**Executive Summary**
This Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1985, dated 2 October 2025, corrects Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135 regarding countervailing duties on optical fibre cables originating in India and amends Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3014 on anti-dumping duties on the same imports. The corrections address errors in duty rates applied to specific companies and are applicable from 12 June 2025.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Correction of Duty Rates:**
* Finolex Cables Limited was incorrectly subjected to duties for non-cooperating companies.
* Aksh Optifibre Limited and Polycab India Limited were incorrectly subjected to duties for cooperating companies.
* **Amendment of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135:**
* Article 1(2) is replaced, providing updated definitive countervailing duty rates for specified companies, along with their respective TARIC additional codes.
* Article 1(2) is replaced, providing updated definitive anti-dumping duty rates for specified companies, along with their respective TARIC additional codes.
* **Repayment or Remission of Excess Duties:**
* Any combined definitive anti-dumping and countervailing duties paid in excess, pursuant to the original regulations (EU) 2024/3014 and (EU) 2025/1135, should be repaid or remitted.
* The request for repayment or remission is to be submitted to national customs authorities.
* **Effective Date:** The regulation applies as of 12 June 2025 and enters into force the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
**Impact Analysis**
**Customs Authorities**
* **Impact:** Required to implement corrected duty rates and handle refunds/remissions.
* **Action Required:** Collect appropriate duty amounts, refund any excess amounts collected, and process repayment or remission requests according to applicable customs legislation.
**Importing Companies**
* **Impact:** Changes to anti-dumping and countervailing duty rates affecting the cost of importing optical fibre cables from India.
* **Action Required:** Review updated duty rates for compliance. Determine if they are eligible for reimbursement of duties paid in excess.
**Indian Optical Fibre Cable Manufacturers**
* **Impact:** Corrected duty rates may affect their competitive position in the EU market.
* **Action Required:** Review the updated duty rates.
Key Entities Referenced
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135: Regulation imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in India
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3014: Regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in India
India: Country of origin for the optical fiber cables subject to anti-dumping and countervailing duties
European Commission: The executive body of the European Union responsible for implementing the regulations
Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2025/1985 3.10.2025
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION(EU) 2025/1985
of 2 October 2025
correcting Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on
imports of optical fibre cables originating in India and amending Implementing Regulation
(EU) 2024/3014 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of optical fibre cables
originating in India
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on protection
against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Union(1), and in particular Articles 9 and 14(1), and
to Regulation (EU) 2016/1037 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on protection against
subsidised imports from countries not members of the European Union(2), and in particular Articles 15 and 24(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imports of optical fibre cables originating in India were imposed by
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3014(3) and Commission Implementing Regulation
(EU) 2025/1135(4), respectively. A request for clarification from customs authorities brought to the Commission’s
attention an error in the duty rates concerning companies which cooperated with the anti-dumping investigation
but not with the subsidy investigation. In particular, Finolex Cables Limited was erroneously subject to the
countervailing and anti-dumping duties applicable to non-cooperating companies in both investigations and Aksh
Optifibre Limited and Polycab India Limited were erroneously subject to the countervailing and anti-dumping duties
applicable to cooperating companies in both investigations.
(2) Therefore, the rate for those companies needed to be corrected as shown below:
Margin for
Injury
Dumping Subsidy Countervailing duty export- Anti-dumping
Company elimination
margin rate rate contingent duty rate
level
subsidies
Birla Cable Ltd; 6,9 % 5,4 % 90,1 % 5,4 % 4,0 % 2,9 %
Universal Cables
Ltd; Vindhya
Telelinks Ltd
Sterlite 11,4 % 3,7 % 44,0 % 3,7 % 2,6 % 8,8 %
Technologies
Limited; Sterlite
Tech Cables
Solutions
Limited
(1) OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 21, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/1036/oj.
(2) OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 55, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/1037/oj.
(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3014 of 13 December 2024 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and
definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of optical fibre cables originating in India (OJ L, 2024/3014,
16.12.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/3014/oj).
(4) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135 of 10 June 2025 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of
optical fibre cables originating in India and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3014 imposing a definitive anti-dumping
duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in India (OJ L, 2025/1135, 11.6.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/
2025/1135/oj).
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Margin for
Injury
Dumping Subsidy Countervailing duty export- Anti-dumping
Company elimination
margin rate rate contingent duty rate
level
subsidies
HFCL Limited; N/A 8,1 % N/A 8,1 % 6,9 % N/A
HTL Limited
Other 9,0 % 5,8 % 71,2 % 5,8 % 4,6 % 4,4 %
companies
cooperating in
both the anti-
subsidy and the
anti-dumping
investigations
Other 9,0 % 8,1 % 71,2 % 8,1 % 6,9 % 2,1 %
companies
cooperating in
the anti-
dumping
investigation but
not in the anti-
subsidy
investigation
All other 11,4 % 8,1 % 90,1 % 8,1 % 6,9 % 4,5 %
imports
originating in
India
(3) Therefore, the Commission considered it appropriate to amend Article 1, Article 2 and the Annex to Implementing
Regulation (EU) 2025/1135.
(4) The revised level of duties should apply as of the entry into force of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135
(12 June 2025) in order to ensure that companies are not levied duties in excess. Customs authorities are instructed
to collect the appropriate amounts of duties and refund any excess amount collected so far in accordance with the
applicable customs legislation.
(5) On 1 August 2025, the Commission informed all interested parties of the essential facts and considerations on the
basis of which it intended to correct the definitive anti-dumping and countervailing measures on imports of optical
fibre cables originating in India (‘final disclosure’). All parties were granted a period within which they could make
comments on the final disclosure. No comments were received.
(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by
Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036,
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135 is amended as follows:
(1) Article 1(2) is replaced by the following:
‘2. The rates of the definitive countervailing duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty, of
the product described in paragraph 1 and produced by the companies listed below shall be as follows:
Company Definitive countervailing duty TARIC additional code
Birla Cable Ltd; Universal Cables Ltd; 5,4 % 89CF
Vindhya Telelinks Ltd
Sterlite Technologies Limited; Sterlite Tech 3,7 % 89CG
Cables Solutions Limited
HFCL Limited; HTL Limited 8,1 % 89CH
Other companies cooperating in both the 5,8 % See Annex I
anti-subsidy and the anti-dumping
investigations listed in the Annex I
All other imports originating in India 8,1 % C999’
(2) in Article 2, point (1) is replaced by the following:
‘(1) Article 1(2) is replaced by the following:
“2. The rates of the definitive anti-dumping duty applicable to the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before
duty, of the product described in paragraph 1 and produced by the companies listed below shall be as follows:
Company Definitive anti-dumping duty TARIC additional code
Birla Cable Ltd; Universal Cables Ltd; 2,9 % 89CF
Vindhya Telelinks Ltd
Sterlite Technologies Limited; Sterlite Tech 8,8 % 89CG
Cables Solutions Limited
Other companies cooperating in both the 4,4 % See Annex I
anti-subsidy and the anti-dumping
investigations listed in the Annex I
Other companies cooperating in the anti- 2,1 % See Annex II
dumping investigation but not in the anti-
subsidy investigation listed in the Annex II
All other imports originating in India 4,5 % C999”’
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1985/oj 3/6EN
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(3) in Article 2, point (4) is amended as follows:
‘(4) the Annex is replaced by Annex I and Annex II to this Regulation.’;
(4) the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1135 is replaced by Annex I and Annex II.
Article 2
Any combined definitive anti-dumping and countervailing duties paid pursuant to Implementing Regulations
(EU) 2024/3014 and (EU) 2025/1135 in excess of the combined definitive anti-dumping and countervailing duties
established in Article 1 shall be repaid or remitted. The repayment or remission shall be requested from national customs
authorities in accordance with the applicable customs legislation.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply as of 12 June 2025.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 2 October 2025.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
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ANNEX I
Non-sampled Indian exporting producers that cooperated in the anti-subsidy investigation and also
cooperated in the anti-dumping investigation
Country Name TARIC additional code
India Apar Industries Limited 89CK
India UM Cables Limited 89CM
India ZTT India Private Limited 89CN
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1985/oj 5/6EN
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ANNEX II
Non-sampled Indian exporting producers that only cooperated in the anti-dumping investigation
Country Name TARIC additional code
India Aksh Optifibre Limited 89CJ
India Finolex Cables Limited 89IC
India Polycab India Limited 89CL
6/6 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1985/oj