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Dette er den første antisubsidieundersøgelse vedrørende den pågældende vare i Unionen.
The investigation did not reveal any data that would have been more appropriate which could have been used for the calculation of the weighting of the tiers throughout the period considered, nor have interested parties been able to present such data.
Der forelå derfor ingen oplysninger, der kunne bruges til at vurdere virkningen af eventuel tidligere subsidiering.
Therefore, the Commission decided not to apply the second adjustment by tiers at definitive stage.
Mikroøkonomiske indikatorer
This approach has increased the weight of tier 1 and tier 2 used to establish the microeconomic indicators.
Giti-gruppen anmodede Kommissionen om også at fremlægge oplysninger om udviklingen i de mikroøkonomiske faktorer uden den vægtning, som Kommissionen havde vedtaget, for at gruppen kunne analysere, om sådanne data uden manipulation ville resultere i et andet skadesbillede.
The CRIA and the CCCMC claimed that the weighting process was illegal, as the basic Regulation did not allow for amendments to the sampling of the Union producers that is supposed to be representative for the entire Union industry.
CRIA og CCCMC fremsatte samme påstand og gentog den efter den endelige fremlæggelse af oplysninger.
Moreover, they argued that the Commission's methodology did not comply with the requirement to base the injury determination on positive evidence to carry out an objective examination since a very limited number of companies eventually determined the whole outcome of the injury assessment, to the detriment of a much larger dataset, the importance of which is downgraded.
Kommissionen afviste dette krav, da fremlæggelsen af skadesindikatorerne uden vægtning ikke ville afspejle EU-erhvervsgrenens faktiske situation, idet det er umuligt at stikprøveudtage så mange SMV'er, som der er behov for, hvis deres reelle vægt blandt EU-producenterne skal afspejles.
Moreover, the CRIA and the CCCMC claimed that the Commission cannot rely on the information provided by four sampled SMEs which would be the basis for the weighting of the injury indicators.
Priser og faktorer, som påvirker priserne
Following the final disclosure, the CRIA and the CCCMC claimed that the Commission did not address the inappropriateness of the methodology for the first adjustment.
De gennemsnitlige enhedssalgspriser hos EU-producenterne i stikprøven ved salg til ikke forretningsmæssigt forbundne kunder i Unionen udviklede sig i den betragtede periode som følger:
The parties claimed that the Commission should have abandoned its approach.
Tabel 9
The Commission recalled the methodology used in recitals (699) to (714).
Salgspriser i Unionen og produktionsomkostninger
Furthermore, the Commission reiterated that as a result of the weighting, the selected sample became statistically more representative of the Union industry as a whole, in accordance with the applicable WTO and EU case-law.
Kilde: Efterprøvede spørgeskemabesvarelser fra EU-producenter i stikprøven
In addition, this allowed the Commission to better take into account the performance of the non-sampled Union producers (SMEs and large producers), which would otherwise be not sufficiently reflected in the injury indicators had the Commission based its findings on the sample without applying the weighting in the case at hand.
Gennemsnitlig enhedssalgspris i Unionen (EUR/enhed)
Given the fragmented character of the Union industry, the Commission could not simply disregard the significance of the SMEs producers on the Union market.
Gennemsnitlige produktionsomkostninger (EUR/stk.)
The data provided by the verified SMEs represents around 4 % of the estimated total SMEs production over the period considered.
Den gennemsnitlige enhedssalgspris faldt med 19 EUR, mens enhedsomkostningerne faldt med 12 EUR i den samme periode.
To reflect the relative importance of the two categories of companies, the Commission based its findings on the verified data of the sampled companies and applied the weighting.
Dette svarer til et fald i priserne på 8 % i løbet af den betragtede periode, mens omkostningerne faldt med 6 %.
The information relied on was available on the open file, duly verified where needed.
I løbet af undersøgelsesperioden steg produktionsomkostningerne sammenlignet med 2016, hvilket ikke fuldt ud kunne afspejles i salgspriserne.
The Commission accordingly considered that it had carried out an objective examination of the existence of injury based on positive evidence.
For alle tre segmenter blev der gennemført en separat analyse ud fra samme metode som beskrevet ovenfor.
Therefore, those claims were rejected.
I segment 1 faldt den gennemsnitlige enhedssalgspris med 25 EUR, mens enhedsomkostningerne faldt med 19 EUR i den samme periode.
Injury segmented analysis
Begge dele faldt i den betragtede periode med 9 %.
As explained in recital (697), the economic situation of the Union industry was analysed on an aggregated basis and, for certain microeconomic indicators at the level of tiers given the Union market segmentation.
Tabel 10
Some interested parties claimed that the injury analysis by segment should consider all injury indicators and causation indicators.
Salgspriser i Unionen og produktionsomkostninger — Segment 1
They referred to the Appellate Body Report in United States — Hot Rolled Steel Products from Japan.
I segment 2 faldt den gennemsnitlige enhedssalgspris med 27 EUR, mens enhedsomkostningerne faldt med 17 EUR i den samme periode.
Moreover, these parties requested that the Commission should also distinguish between new and retreaded tyres, original equipment and replacement tyres, as the original equipment market was shielded from Chinese competition, again by reference to the Appellate Body report in United States — Hot Rolled Steel Products from Japan.
Dette svarer til et fald i gennemsnitsprisen på 12 % i løbet af den betragtede periode, hvorimod omkostningerne faldt med 9 %.
The jurisprudence mentioned above indicates that the investigating authorities who undertake an examination of one part of a domestic industry ‘should, in principle, examine, in like manner, all of the other parts that make up the industry, as well as examine the industry as a whole’.
Tabel 11
However, the Appellate Body Report does not impose on the investigating authorities an obligation to provide all injury indicators by segment.
Salgspriser i Unionen og produktionsomkostninger — Segment 2
Moreover, the facts in that case were different.
Gennemsnitlig enhedssalgspris i Unionen — hele markedet (EUR/enhed)
In the Appellate Body report in United States — Hot Rolled Steel Products from Japan, a significant part of the domestic production in the United States – captive production – was shielded by the structure of the domestic market from direct competition from subject imports.
I segment 3 faldt den gennemsnitlige enhedssalgspris med 9 EUR, mens enhedsomkostningerne steg med 2 EUR i den samme periode.
In that specific situation, the Appellate Body took issue with ‘comparative examination’ of each part of the domestic market – which ‘juxtaposed’ the merchant market and captive market.
Dette svarer til et fald i gennemsnitsprisen på 5 % i løbet af den betragtede periode, mens omkostningerne steg med 1 %.
For the Appellate Body, this ‘enhanced’ the ability of the investigating authorities to make an appropriate determination about the state of the domestic industry as a whole.
Tabel 12
In the present case, though, there is no protection of the tier 1 and 2 segments of the Union market.
Salgspriser i Unionen og produktionsomkostninger — Segment 3
The Chinese imports' sales are concentrated mainly in the replacement market, which is a factual situation that is not imposed by the structure of the Union market.
CRIA og CCCMC anmodede Kommissionen om at præcisere, om de koncerninterne afregningspriser mellem forretningsmæssigt forbundne virksomheder blev taget i betragtning ved fastsættelsen af skadesindikatorerne.
Moreover, the product concerned was also sold to original equipment manufacturers.
Kommissionen præciserede, at når der var forretningsmæssigt forbundne virksomheder involveret i salget, blev de stikprøveudtagne producenter anmodet om at fremlægge oplysninger om salget til de første uafhængige kunder.
Therefore, the claim that Union original equipment market was shielded from Chinese competition and should thus be analysed separately was rejected.
For så vidt angår købet af råmaterialer gennem forretningsmæssigt forbundne virksomheder, undersøgte Kommissionen afregningsprispolitikken, og dette førte ikke til nogen justeringer.
Moreover, as noted in recital (695), case-law also confirms that, when examining whether there is injury for the Union industry as a whole, such analysis may focus on the segment most affected by subsidised imports.
Arbejdskraftomkostninger
In the present case, around 65 % of Chinese imports of tyres relate to tier 3.
De gennemsnitlige arbejdskraftomkostninger hos EU-producenterne i stikprøven udviklede sig således i den betragtede periode:
Therefore, a proper injury analysis cannot disregard the impact of the subsidised imports especially in a market situation where tier 3 tyre sales are continuously growing, and where all tiers that make up the Union tyre market are interrelated.
Tabel 13
For these reasons, the Commission considered to have conducted a proper examination of the industry as a whole.
Gennemsnitlige arbejdskraftomkostninger pr. ansat
Macroeconomic indicators
Kilde: Efterprøvede spørgeskemabesvarelser fra EU-producenter i stikprøven.
The CRIA and the CCCMC claimed that they had doubts about the reliability of some of the information relied on concerning the macroeconomic indicators.
Gennemsnitlige arbejdskraftomkostninger pr. ansat (i EUR)
A document providing clarifications on the preliminary findings was included in the open file.
De gennemsnitlige arbejdskraftomkostninger steg med 6 % i den betragtede periode.
Regarding the establishment of the macroeconomic indicators, the Commission relied on various sources, including data provided by the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers' Association (‘ETRMA’).
Lagerbeholdninger
ETRMA publishes market analysis that is publicly available on its web site.
Lagerbeholdningerne hos EU-producenterne i stikprøven udviklede sig i den betragtede periode som følger:
The open version of the complaint included a document originating from ETRMA (annex 16 – ETRMA booklet for 2016).
Tabel 14
The Commission noted that some of the exporting producers as well as certain Union producers are members of ETRMA and were also providing submissions supported by data from ETRMA (such as the Hankook Group and Pirelli).
Slutlagre (Indeks 2014 = 100)
Production, production capacity and capacity utilisation
Slutlagre i procent af produktionen
After disclosure of the Information Document, the Commission established that, as implied in recital (625), the Union production volume should be corrected in order to contain the sales of tread suppliers not members of ETRMA Europool.
Lagerbeholdningerne steg med 44 % i den betragtede periode og udgjorde ca. 9 % af den årlige produktion.
Moreover, a clerical error was found when establishing the production capacity.
Denne situation har en negativ indvirkning på de stikprøveudtagne EU-producenters finansielle situation.
The estimated total Union production, production capacity and capacity utilisation were revised accordingly and developed over the period considered as follows:
China National Tire-gruppen og Pirelli hævdede, at Kommissionen burde overveje ikke blot at analysere den samlede erhvervsgren, men også at sondre mellem nye og regummierede dæk eller mellem forskellige dæksegmenter.
Table 6
De hævdede, at der ifølge klagen ikke er sket nogen forøgelse af lagerbeholdningen, for så vidt angår dæk i segment 1 eller 2.
Source: ETRMA, tread suppliers not members of ETRMA Europool, Eurostat Comext and information submitted by the complainant.
Tværtimod faldt lagerbeholdningerne i segment 1 og 2 med henholdsvis 15 % og 21 % mellem 2013 og 2016.
Production volume (in items)
Omvendt anførte klageren, at der var en stigning i lagerbeholdningerne på 17 % for dæk i segment 3.
Production capacity (in items)
De mener, at den indberettede stigning i lagerbeholdningerne kun vedrører regummieringsindustrien.
Capacity utilisation
Desuden kan der være forskellige faktorer, der kan forklare udsving i lagerbeholdningen.
As shown in Table 6, production remained relatively stable, with 21,1 million units in the investigation period, while the capacity utilisation rate increased by 7,4 percentage points (from 72,2 % to 79,6 %) over the period considered given the decrease in production capacity.
Eksempelvis kan stigninger i lagerbeholdningen udløses af et øget salg, som tilskrives forventede ordrer.
The main cause of the increase in capacity utilisation can only be attributed to the significant decrease in production capacity by almost 10 %.
Nærmere bestemt registrerede Prometeon Tyre Group S.r.l. en stigning i lagerbeholdningen som følge af flere faktorer, som alle var relateret til den europæiske økonomiske krise.
That concerned mainly the retreading activity as during the period considered, at least 85 SMEs located in virtually all Member States stopped producing retreading tyres but also the closure of subsidiaries of large companies.
Dækproduktionen er snævert forbundet med transport, og transporten afhænger hovedsagelig af samhandelen generelt.
The flat trend of the Union production and the closure of companies are in contrast with the post-crisis growing consumption in the Union from which the Union industry could have benefited.
En handelskrise resulterer i et begrænset transportbehov, og dette medfører logisk nok en nedgang i dæksalget.
Sales volume and market share
Påstanden blev derfor afvist.
After disclosure of the Information Document, the Commission established that, as implied in recital (625), the total sales volume in the Union market should be corrected in order to contain the sales of tread suppliers not members of ETRMA Europool.
Rentabilitet, likviditet, investeringer, investeringsafkast og evne til at rejse kapital
The Union industry's sales volume and market share were revised accordingly and developed over the period considered as follows:
I den foreløbige fase blev rentabiliteten, likviditeten, investeringerne, investeringsafkastet og evnen til at rejse kapital fastlagt ved hjælp af den metode, der er beskrevet i betragtning 692 og 693.
Table 7
Rentabiliteten, likviditeten, investeringerne og investeringsafkastet hos de EU-producenter, der indgik i stikprøven, udviklede sig således i den betragtede periode:
Source: ETRMA, tread suppliers not members of ETRMA Europool and Eurostat Comext.
Tabel 15
Total sales volume on the Union market (in items)
Rentabilitet, likviditet, investeringer og investeringsafkast
In a growing market, sales in the Union decreased slightly over the period considered.
Rentabilitet ved salg i Unionen til ikke forretningsmæssigt forbundne kunder (% af omsætningen)
This resulted in a decrease by 5,3 percentage points of market share (from 72,4 % to 67,1 %) while import volume from the PRC increased by over 1,1 million of tyres, or an increase of 4,2 percentage points of market share (from 17,1 % to 21,3 %).
Likviditet (mio. EUR)
The China National Tire Group and Pirelli claimed that the sales volume in the Union market remained stable over the previous three years and the market share of the Union industry decreased by 5 percentage points from 2014 to 2017, which is an insignificant decrease.
Investeringer (mio. EUR)
They also claimed that the volume of Union sales reported by the complaints for the period 2013 and 2016 showed a strong decline for tier 3 (– 30 %), a decline in sales for tier 2 (– 7 %) and a slight decline in sales for tier 1 (– 1 %).
Investeringsafkast
As such, it was clear that the only injury could be found in the tier 3 segment and that the injury analysis must take into consideration the market segmentation.
Kommissionen fastsatte rentabiliteten for de EU-producenter, der indgik i stikprøven, ved at udtrykke nettooverskuddet før skat af salget af samme vare til ikke forretningsmæssigt forbundne kunder i Unionen som en procentdel af omsætningen ved dette salg.
The Commission noted that the figures mentioned in the previous recital relate to the sales of the complainants only, and not to the Union industry as a whole.
Den samlede rentabilitet faldt fra 15,6 % i 2014 til 13,7 % i undersøgelsesperioden.
They also relate to a different period in time.
Dette blev beregnet på grundlag af den vægtede andel af hvert segment i salget, som forklaret i betragtning 692 og 693.
Therefore, it is not possible to transpose the evolution of the complainants' sales volume to the Union industry.
Den faldende rentabilitet med 1,9 procentpoint er et resultat af, at faldet i priserne (– 8 %) var større end faldet i omkostningerne (– 6 %).
As explained in recitals (718) to (722), the Commission considered that the existence of material injury must be determined with regard to the product concerned and the Union industry as a whole, and not only for certain parts of it.
Den samlede rentabilitet er påvirket af rentabiliteten i segment 1, mens segment 3 alene blev tabsgivende i undersøgelsesperioden.
Therefore, the Commission did not examine the trends in isolation, namely per tier, since it followed an aggregated approach.
Desuden er den relative tendens i rentabiliteten for hele EU-erhvervsgrenen også faldende.
Growth
Nettolikviditeten er et udtryk for EU-producenternes evne til at selvfinansiere deres aktiviteter.
The Union consumption increased by 6,1 % during the period considered.
Tendensen for nettolikviditeten viser et fald på 12 %.
The sales volumes of the Union industry decreased by 1,7 % in spite of the growing consumption, which resulted in the Union industry losing market share.
Investeringsafkastet er fortjenesten udtrykt i procent af den bogførte nettoværdi af investeringerne.
The market share of the imports from the country concerned increased during the period considered (by more than 4 percentage points).
Den udviklede sig negativt fra 21,0 % til 17,6 % i løbet af den betragtede periode.
The Giti Group claimed that the Union consumption had to be analysed in value instead of in volume.
I den endelige fase blev rentabiliteten af salget i Unionen til ikke forretningsmæssigt forbundne kunder (% af omsætningen) justeret i overensstemmelse hermed på baggrund af parternes bemærkninger til vægtningsmetoden (betragtning 694-717).
On this basis, Union consumption decreased by 5 % in value, and only started to slowly increase between 2016 and the Investigation Period.
Som vist i tabel 16 forbliver konklusionerne baseret på tendenserne i den foreløbige fase, med den reviderede vægtning, gyldige for alle de mikroøkonomiske indikatorer, der blev analyseret på et aggregeret grundlag:
The Union consumption gave a snap-shot of the number of tyres available on the Union market at a given moment.
Tabel 16
Union consumption is customarily calculated in volume precisely to avoid that the pricing behaviour of the market players may affect the trends over the period considered.
Fortjenstmargen som i tabel 15 (% af omsætningen)
Productivity was recalculated based on the revised Union production figures as explained in recital (726).
Fortjenstmargen med den reviderede metode (betragtning 694-717) (% af omsætningen)
Therefore, the employment and productivity developed over the period considered as follows:
Rentabiliteten i segment 1 varierede i den betragtede periode.
Table 8
Den steg fra 2014 (17,9 %) til 2015 (21,8 %) og faldt derefter i undersøgelsesperioden til et niveau, der lå en smule under 2014 (17,5 %).
Source: Verified questionnaire replies of the sampled Union producers, submissions from tread suppliers and ETRMA.
Dette kan til dels forklares med udviklingen af produktionsomkostningerne og priserne, eftersom faldet i produktionsomkostningerne var større end faldet i salgspriserne i 2015.
Number of employees
I segment 1 forblev nettolikviditeten stabil, mens investeringsafkastet faldt fra 26,0 % til 24,3 % i den betragtede periode.
Productivity (unit/employee)
Tabel 17
There were over 4257 direct jobs lost over the period considered and affecting both SMEs where at least 85 producers located throughout the Union have stopped production and the large companies which have shut down several plants.
Segment 1 –Rentabilitet, likviditet, investeringer og investeringsafkast
After the disclosure of the Information Document, the Italian association of retreaders (‘AIRP’) claimed that the retreading sector in the Union accounts for around 13000 jobs for production and distribution.
Hvad angår segment 2, faldt rentabiliteten med 2,6 procentpoint i den betragtede periode (fra 17,9 % i 2014 til 15,3 % i undersøgelsesperioden).
Retreading activity is a rather labour intensive activity and a retreaded tyre supports 3 to 4 times the number of jobs of a new tyre.
I segment 2 faldt nettolikviditeten betragteligt med 22 %, og investeringsafkastet faldt fra 20,4 % til 16,2 % i den betragtede periode.
According to AIRP, several companies associated are currently reducing personnel or making a massive use of unemployment insurance funds.
Tabel 18
The China National Tire Group and Pirelli stated that the employment, for which the Commission found a decrease of 11 % exclusively relates to the retreading industry.
Segment 2 — Rentabilitet, likviditet, investeringer og investeringsafkast
The development of productivity can instead be explained by the fact that the Union industry has recently gone through a period of restructuring and rationalisation.
Segment 3 er tabsgivende i undersøgelsesperioden (– 0,4 %).
The statement regarding the decrease in employment is factually incorrect, since around half of it is from large manufacturers.
Tabene for SMV'erne var særligt udtalte (– 6,1 % i undersøgelsesperioden).
Heuver requested that the names of the 85 SMEs mentioned in recital (809) should be disclosed.
Rentabiliteten for store virksomheder i segment 3 blev halveret fra 2014 til undersøgelsesperioden — fra 10 % til 4,8 %.
The Commission had found that there were at least 85 producers that stopped production based on the list of customers that tread suppliers had provided in this investigation.
I segment 3 faldt nettolikviditeten betragteligt med 62 %, og investeringsafkastet faldt fra 7,6 % til 2,5 % i den betragtede periode.
The Commission granted confidential treatment to the identity of the customers and the volume of sales per customers since this is sensitive business information.
Tabel 19
Moreover, interested parties are not requested to provide a summary for this type of document.
Segment 3 — Rentabilitet, likviditet, investeringer og investeringsafkast
The tread suppliers provided a summary of their submissions, which can be found in the open file.
I den endelige fase blev rentabiliteten af salget i Unionen til ikke forretningsmæssigt forbundne kunder (% af omsætningen) for segment 3 justeret i overensstemmelse hermed på baggrund af parternes bemærkninger til vægtningsmetoden (betragtning 694-717).
The Commission therefore concluded that the parties had sufficient information to exercise their rights of defence.
Som vist i tabel 20 forbliver konklusionerne baseret på tendenserne i den foreløbige fase, med den reviderede vægtning, gyldige for segment 3:
The CRIA and the CCCMC claimed that the Commission's assumption that all cold process sales are made by SMEs is erroneous as many large companies are using the cold process retreading methodology.
Tabel 20
They concluded that the resulting estimation of employment and productivity were therefore unreliable.
Rentabilitet ved salg i Unionen til ikke forretningsmæssigt forbundne kunder for segment 3 (% af omsætningen)
As mentioned in recital (708), the Commission found that the production of large companies using the cold process is rather limited and cannot as such dismiss the estimation made by the Commission regarding the employment and productivity.
Fortjenstmargen som i tabel 18 (% af omsætningen)
Moreover, the productivity relates mostly to the type of production (namely retreading or new).