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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/500 of 13 March 2025 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain aluminium road wheels originating in Morocco

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/500
of 13 March 2025
imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain aluminium road wheels originating in Morocco
1.
PROCEDURE
1.1.
Initiation
1.2.
Interested parties and request for anonymity
1.3.
Comments concerning initiation
1.3.1.
Comments following final disclosure
1.4.
Sampling
1.4.1.
Sampling of Union producers
1.4.2.
Sampling of importers
1.4.3.
Sampling of exporting producers in Morocco
1.5.
Individual examination
1.6.
Questionnaire replies and verification visits
1.7.
Investigation period and period considered.
1.8.
Non-imposition of provisional measures and subsequent procedure
1.9.
Final disclosure
2.
PRODUCT CONCERNED AND LIKE PRODUCT
2.1.
Product concerned
2.2.
Like product
3.
SUBSIDISATION
3.1.
Subsidies and subsidy programmes within the scope of the investigations
3.2.
Partial non-cooperation and use of facts available
3.2.1.
Application of Article 28 of the basic Regulation to the GOM
3.2.2.
Application of Article 28 of the basic Regulation to DMA and its related companies
3.3.
Background on the preferential policies for the Moroccan automotive industry
3.3.1.
National Pact for Industrial Emergence 2009-2015
3.3.2.
Industrial Acceleration Plan 2014-2020
3.3.3.
New Investment Charter 2022
3.4.
Cooperation between Morocco and China
3.4.1.
Legal basis
3.4.2.
Introduction and factual context of the bilateral cooperation: legal and policy documents
3.4.3.
Details of the investment project by the Dicastal group
3.5.
Subsidies provided in the context of the bilateral cooperation between the GOM and the GOC
3.5.1.
Legal assessment
3.5.1.1. Comments following final disclosure
3.5.2.
Preferential financing provided by a government or a public body in the context of cooperation between the GOM and the GOC
3.5.2.1. Preferential financing provided to DMA for the Morocco investment project
3.5.2.1.1. Grants and preferential financing provided by the GOC and by Chinese banks and financial institutions to CITIC Dicastal
(a)
Sources of external funds
(b)
Legal standard
(c)
Chinese State-owned banks and financial institutions acting as public body
3.5.2.1.2. Provision of preferential financing to DMA by CITIC Dicastal acting as a public body
(a)
Provision of preferential financing by CITIC Dicastal through its related entities
(b)
Preferential financing provided to DMA via Changsha Dicastal
(c)
Preferential financing provided to DMA via Dicastal Asia
(d)
Preferential financing provided to DMA via Dicastal HK
(e)
Preferential financing provided to DMA via Wisdom
(f)
Conclusion
3.5.2.1.3. CITIC Dicastal acting as a public body
3.5.2.2. Findings of the investigation
(a)
Capital increase
(1)
Financial contribution
(2)
Benefit
(3)
Specificity
(4)
Conclusion
(b)
De facto
loan linked to capital goods and loans
(1)
Financial contribution
(2)
Benefit
(3)
Specificity
(4)
Conclusion
(c)
Direct transfer of funds linked to the provision of aluminium ingots
(1)
Financial contribution
(2)
Benefit
(3)
Specificity
(4)
Conclusion
3.6.
Direct transfer of funds provided by the GOM
3.6.1.
Grants provided under IDIF
(a)
Legal basis
(b)
Findings of the investigation
(c)
Financial contribution
(d)
Benefit
(e)
Specificity
(f)
Conclusion
3.6.2.
Grants provided under HIIF
3.6.3.
Preferential financing
(a)
Legal basis
(b)
Findings of the investigation
(c)
Financial contribution
(d)
Benefit
(e)
Specificity
(f)
Conclusion
3.7.
Government revenue foregone or not collected
(a)
Legal basis
(b)
Findings of the investigation
(c)
Financial contribution
(d)
Benefit
(e)
Specificity
(2)
Conclusion
3.8.
Provision of land for less than adequate remuneration by the GOM
(a)
Legal basis
(b)
Findings of the investigation
(c)
Financial contribution
(d)
Benefit
(e)
Specificity
(f)
Conclusion
3.9.
Schemes which were not countervailed
3.10.
Conclusion on subsidisation
4.
INJURY
4.1.
Definition of the Union industry and Union production
4.2.
Union consumption
4.3.
Imports from the country concerned.
4.3.1.
Volume and market share of the imports from the country concerned.
4.3.2.
Prices of the imports from the country concerned, price undercutting and price suppression
4.4.
Economic situation of the Union industry
4.4.1.
General remarks
4.4.2.
Macroeconomic indicators
4.4.2.1. Production, production capacity and capacity utilisation
4.4.2.2. Sales volume and market share
4.4.2.3. Growth
4.4.2.4. Employment and productivity
4.4.2.5. Magnitude of the subsidy rates and recovery from past subsidisation.
4.4.3.
Microeconomic indicators
4.4.3.1. Prices and factors affecting prices.
4.4.3.2. Labour costs
4.4.3.3. Inventories
4.4.3.4. Profitability, cash flow, investments, return on investments and ability to raise capital.
4.4.4.
Conclusion on injury
5.
CAUSATION
5.1.
Effects of the subsidised imports
5.2.
Effects of other factors
5.2.1.
Imports from third countries
5.2.2.
COVID-19 pandemic
5.2.3.
Export performance of the Union industry
5.2.4.
Consumption
5.2.5.
Effects of multi-year contracts and evolution of the cost of production
5.3.
Conclusion on causation
6.
UNION INTEREST
6.1.
Interest of the Union industry
6.2.
Interest of unrelated importers and users.
6.3.
Conclusion on Union interest
7.
DEFINITIVE COUNTERVAILING MEASURES
7.1.
Level of the definitive countervailing measures
8.
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Article 2