COMMISSION DECISION
of 15 November 2006
terminating the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of cathode-ray colour television picture tubes originating in the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Thailand
(2006/781/EC)
A. PROCEDURE
1. Initiation
2. Parties concerned by the proceeding
3. Investigation period
B. PRODUCT CONCERNED AND LIKE PRODUCT
1. Product concerned
2. Like product
C. DUMPING
1. Market Economy Treatment (MET)
2. Normal value
2.1. General methodology
2.1.1. Global representativeness
2.1.2. Comparison of product types
2.1.3. Product type specific representativeness
2.1.4. Ordinary course of trade test
2.2. PRC
2.2.1. Companies granted MET
2.2.2. Analogue country
2.3. Korea, Malaysia, Thailand
3. Export price
3.1. PRC
3.2. Korea
3.3. Malaysia, Thailand
4. Comparison
5. Dumping margin
5.1. Individual dumping margins
5.2. Countrywide dumping margins
|
0 % |
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|
25,5 % |
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|
28,3 % |
|
0 % |
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|
15,0 % |
|
5,1 % |
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|
14,5 % |
|
41,4 % |
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|
47,2 % |
D. INJURY
1. Community production and Community industry
2. Community consumption
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Total EC consumption (pieces) |
9 540 185 |
9 387 212 |
10 023 216 |
8 170 802 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
98 |
105 |
86 |
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Total EC consumption based on captive and non-captive sales (pieces) |
15 655 283 |
14 243 625 |
12 850 690 |
9 425 280 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
91 |
82 |
60 |
3. Imports from the countries concerned
(a) Cumulative assessment of the effects of the imports concerned
(b) Volume
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Volume of dumped imports from the countries concerned (pieces) |
1 626 027 |
2 337 736 |
2 296 547 |
1 585 294 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
144 |
141 |
97 |
Market share of dumped imports from the countries concerned |
17,0 % |
24,9 % |
22,9 % |
19,4 % |
Prices of dumped imports from the countries concerned (EUR/piece) |
50 |
43 |
32 |
39 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
85 |
64 |
76 |
(c) Market share
(d) Prices
(i) Price evolution
(ii) Price undercutting
4. Situation of the Community industry
(a) Production
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Production (pieces) |
9 727 029 |
10 461 957 |
11 685 396 |
9 276 778 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
108 |
120 |
95 |
(b) Capacity and capacity utilisation rates
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Production capacity (pieces) |
11 865 163 |
12 297 545 |
14 626 819 |
15 133 449 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
104 |
123 |
128 |
Capacity utilisation |
82 % |
85 % |
80 % |
61 % |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
104 |
97 |
75 |
(c) Stocks
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Closing stock (pieces) |
627 641 |
56 996 |
943 655 |
278 406 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
9 |
150 |
44 |
(d) Sales volume
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
EC Sales volume to unrelated customers (pieces) |
2 645 562 |
2 814 515 |
3 229 069 |
3 078 543 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
106 |
122 |
116 |
(e) Market share
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Market share of Community industry |
27,7 % |
30,0 % |
32,2 % |
37,7 % |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
108 |
116 |
136 |
(f) Growth
(g) Employment
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Employment (persons) |
9 604 |
9 254 |
9 805 |
8 632 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
96 |
102 |
90 |
(h) Productivity
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Productivity (pieces per employee) |
1 013 |
1 131 |
1 192 |
1 075 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
112 |
118 |
106 |
(i) Wages
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Annual labour cost per employee (000 EUR) |
11 |
10 |
10 |
11 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
89 |
87 |
101 |
(j) Sales prices and factors affecting Community prices
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Unit price EC market (EUR/piece) |
66 |
49 |
44 |
38 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
75 |
66 |
58 |
(k) Profitability and return on investments
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Profitability of EC sales to unrelated (% of net sales) |
24,0 % |
18,2 % |
10,1 % |
–3,6 % |
ROI (profit in % of net book value of investments) |
17,5 % |
9,1 % |
5,7 % |
–2,1 % |
(l) Cash flow and ability to raise capital
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Cash flow (000 EUR) |
175 468 |
124 804 |
140 548 |
–24 626 |
(m) Investments
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
IP |
Net investments (000 EUR) |
81 445 |
69 807 |
49 426 |
16 996 |
Index (2002 = 100) |
100 |
86 |
61 |
21 |