CELEX: 62016TA0310
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-310/16: Judgment of the General Court of 20 March 2019 — Foshan Lihua Ceramic v Commission (Dumping — Imports of ceramic tiles originating in China — Article 11(4) and (5) and Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 (now Article 11(4) and (5) and Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036) — Refusal to grant new exporting producer treatment in accordance with Article 3 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 917/2011 — Sampling — Individual examination — Confidentiality)

6.5.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/38
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 20 March 2019 — Foshan Lihua Ceramic v Commission
      (Case T-310/16) (1)
      
      (Dumping - Imports of ceramic tiles originating in China - Article 11(4) and (5) and Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 (now Article 11(4) and (5) and Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036) - Refusal to grant new exporting producer treatment in accordance with Article 3 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 917/2011 - Sampling - Individual examination - Confidentiality)
      (2019/C 155/45)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Foshan Lihua Ceramic Co. Ltd (Foshan, China) (represented by: B. Spinoit, D. Philippe and A. Wese, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: A. Demeneix, M. França and T. Maxian Rusche, and subsequently by A. Demeneix, T. Maxian Rusche and N. Kuplewatzky, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Cerame-Unie AISBL (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: V. Akritidis, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU, for the annulment of the Commission’s Implementing Decision C(2016) 2136 final of 15 April 2016 rejecting a request for a new exporting producer treatment with regard to the definitive anti-dumping measures imposed on imports of ceramic tiles originating in the People’s Republic of China by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 917/2011.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Foshan Lihua Ceramic Co. Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Cerame-Unie AISBL to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 305, 22.8.2016.