85Consequently, it follows from the basic regulation, and in particular from Article 13 thereof and recital 20 in the preamble thereto, that the purpose of a regulation extending an anti-dumping duty is to ensure the effectiveness of that measure and to prevent its being circumvented by, in particular, assembly operations in the Community or a non-member country. Thus, a measure extending an anti-dumping duty is merely ancillary to the initial measure imposing that duty. It would therefore be contrary to the purpose and general scheme of Article 13 of the basic regulation to impose an anti-dumping duty, initially imposed on imports of a product originating in certain countries, on imports of parts of that product from the country subject to the measures where the operators carrying out the assembly operations investigated by the Commission prove that those parts, constituting 60% or more of the total value of the parts of the assembled product, originated in another country. In such a situation, the assembly operations cannot be considered to circumvent the antidumping duty initially imposed, within the meaning of Article 13 of the basic regulation.
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