Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2021:612
Date: 2021-09-22
Language of the case: English
Subject matter: Dumping;External relations;Commercial policy
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded

Judgment of the General Court of 22 September 2021 – Severstal v Commission (Case T-753/16) 1 (Dumping – Imports of certain cold-rolled flat steel products originating in China and Russia – Definitive anti-dumping duty – Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 (now Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036) – Use of facts available – Article 2(3), (4), (9), (10) and (12) of Regulation No 1225/2009 (now Article 2(3), (4), (9), (10) and (12) of Regulation 2016/1036) – Calculation of the normal value, the export price and the dumping margin – Article 3(2) and (5) of Regulation No 1225/2009 (now Article 3(2) and (5) of Regulation 2016/1036) – Determination of the existence of injury – Article 3(7) of Regulation No 1225/2009 (now Article 3(7) of Regulation 2016/1036) – Causal link – Article 2(9) and Article 9(4) of Regulation No 1225/2009 (now Article 2(9) and Article 9(4) of Regulation 2016/1036) – Injury elimination – Rights of the defence – Principle of good administration – Proportionality – Manifest errors of assessment) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: PAO Severstal (Cherepovets, Russia) (represented by: D. O’Keeffe, Solicitor, N. Tuominen and M. Krestiyanova, lawyers) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J.-F. Brakeland, K. Blanck and E. Schmidt, acting as Agents) Intervener in support of the defendant: Eurofer, European Steel Association, ASBL, (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) (represented by: O. Prost, A. Coelho Dias and S. Seeuws, lawyers) Re: Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1328 of 29 July 2016 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain cold-rolled flat steel products originating in the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation (OJ 2016 L 210, p. 1). Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders PAO Severstal to bear, in addition to its own costs, those incurred by the European Commission; Orders Eurofer, European Steel Association, ASBL, to bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 14, 16.1.2017.