This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Article 1 of this Regulation shall apply for a period of six months.

The Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 10 May 2010.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel BARROSO

( 1 ) OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 51 .

( 2 ) OJ C 190, 13.8.2009, p. 22 .

( 3 ) Cast, flow-formed, forged and two- and three-part wheels.

( 4 ) Exceptionally, this has not been the case for some months of the investigation period of the present proceeding. This rise in prices in the Chinese aluminium markets has been the result of a stimulus package of the Chinese Government aiming at limiting the effects of the economic crisis (End of 2008, the State Reserves Bureau started a scheme to buy aluminium from smelters to help their operations as the global financial crisis cut demand. Those State-backed purchases absorbed most of the stocks in the domestic market in March and April, driving up prices during the first half of 2009).

( 5 ) Two calculations of consumption were compared and yielded similar results. As most production is ‘on order’, stocks do not play a major role in terms of volumes as compared to total consumption. In the first calculation EU production was added to imports and exports were deducted. In the second calculation imports and EU sales (data from sampled producers, mini questionnaires, and assumption for the rest of producers) were summed up. The second option was preferred as it allows a higher level of precision in this case.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 404/2010 of 10 May 2010 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain aluminium wheels originating in the People's Republic of China