Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors

The evidence collected by OLAF in the joint investigation in the UAE enabled the Spanish authorities to recover several million Euros of import duties. Steel wire ropes had also been in the focus of OLAF investigations in the past: for example, stainless steel wire manufactured in India had been imported into the Community via intermediaries in the UAE in violation of the anti-dumping and countervailing duty regulations introduced on such products.

It should first be noted that finished steel wire rope produced by BWWR has previously gone through two main production stages, namely: (i) a given number of individual steel wires are first twisted into what is known as a ‘stranded wire’, and (ii) a given number of such stranded wires formed from individual steel wires are then twisted together to form the finished steel wire rope.

(6) Contrary to the allegation of the existence of two different separate products, i.e. general purpose ropes and special purpose ropes, it was found that SWR were produced in a wide range of different types by the exporting producers and that all SWR had the same basic physical characteristics (i.e. the steel wires that form strands, the strands that are wrapped around the core that form the rope and the core itselfJ. All SWR were also found to have the same basic technical characteristics (all have a number of wires in a strand, a number of strands in a rope, a certain diameter and a certain construction).

Other products manufactured by these companies (e.g. stainless steel wire ropes, SWR of less than 3 mm, steel wires, and pre-stressed strands) were broadly found to be related to this main activity and generally used the same raw material, machinery and personnel.

The work programme described includes - digital-signal processing (DSP), Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC), RF (radio frequency) communications, and touch-screen solutions - a focus on RF (radio frequency) semiconductor components for use in portable transmitters and receivers that operate at lower voltages and higher frequencies - systems architectures for wireline/wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs), personal intelligent communicators (PICs) and screenphone/fax.