Case T-763/20: Judgment of the General Court of 21 February 2024 — Inner Mongolia Shuangxin Environment-Friendly Material v Commission (Dumping — Imports of certain polyvinyl alcohols originating in China — Definitive anti-dumping duty — Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1336 — Calculation of the normal value — Significant distortions in the exporting country — Article 2(6a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 — WTO law — Principle of consistent interpretation — Choice of appropriate representative country — Readily available data — Non-cooperation — Definition of ‘necessary information’ — Article 18 of Regulation 2016/1036 — Price undercutting — Market segments — Product control number method — Article 3(2) and (3) of Regulation 2016/1036 — Rights of the defence — Confidential treatment — Articles 19 and 20 of Regulation 2016/1036)
Date: 2024-02-21
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: China, anti-dumping duty, chemical alcohol, confidentiality, import (EU), originating product, rights of the defence








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Judgment of the General Court of 21 February 2024 — Inner Mongolia Shuangxin Environment-Friendly Material v Commission
(Case T-763/20) (1)

(Dumping - Imports of certain polyvinyl alcohols originating in China - Definitive anti-dumping duty - Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1336 - Calculation of the normal value - Significant distortions in the exporting country - Article 2(6a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 - WTO law - Principle of consistent interpretation - Choice of appropriate representative country - Readily available data - Non-cooperation - Definition of ‘necessary information’ - Article 18 of Regulation 2016/1036 - Price undercutting - Market segments - Product control number method - Article 3(2) and (3) of Regulation 2016/1036 - Rights of the defence - Confidential treatment - Articles 19 and 20 of Regulation 2016/1036)
(C/2024/2424)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Inner Mongolia Shuangxin Environment-Friendly Material Co. Ltd (Ordos, China) (represented by: J. Cornelis, F. Graafsma and E. Vermulst, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Luengo, acting as Agent)

Intervener in support of the applicant: Wegochem Europe BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: R. Antonini, E. Monard and B. Maniatis, lawyers)

Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: A. Neergaard, D. Moore and A. Pospíšilová Padowska, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: H. Marcos Fraile and B. Driessen, acting as Agents, and by N. Tuominen, lawyer), Kuraray Europe GmbH (Hattersheim am Main, Germany) (represented by: R. MacLean and D. Sevilla Pascual, lawyers), Sekisui Specialty Chemicals Europe SL (La Canonja, Spain) (represented by: A. Borsos and J. Jousma, lawyers)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1336 of 25 September 2020 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain polyvinyl alcohols originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ 2020 L 315, p. 1), in so far as it concerns the applicant.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the action;










2.


Orders Inner Mongolia Shuangxin Environment-Friendly Material Co. Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission, by Kuraray Europe GmbH and by Sekisui Specialty Chemicals Europe SL;










3.


Orders the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and Wegochem Europe BV to bear their own costs.






(1)  
            OJ C 53, 15.2.2021.


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