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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/191 of 16 February 2022 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain iron or steel fasteners originating in the People’s Republic of China

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/191
of 16 February 2022
imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain iron or steel fasteners originating in the People’s Republic of China
1.
PROCEDURE
1.1.
Initiation
1.2.
Registration
1.3.
Interested parties
1.4.
Comments on initiation of the investigation
1.5.
Request for anonymity
1.6.
Claims on confidentiality
1.7.
Claims on the management of the non-confidential file
1.8.
Sampling
1.8.1.
Sampling of Union producers
1.8.2.
Sampling of importers
1.8.3.
Sampling of exporting producers
1.9.
Individual examination and requests for a newcomer treatment
1.10.
Replies to the questionnaires
1.11.
Hearings
1.12.
Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union
1.13.
Non imposition of provisional measures
2.
PRODUCT CONCERNED AND LIKE PRODUCT
2.1.
Product concerned
2.2.
Like product
2.3.
Claims regarding the product scope
2.3.1.
Structural timber screws/connectors (or wood lag screws)
2.3.2.
Screws and bolts for fixing railway track construction material
2.3.3.
Hot forged fasteners
2.3.4.
Hardware kits
2.3.5.
Anchors and structural connections for concrete, masonry, wood and steel
2.3.6.
Confirmat screws (or self-drive dowels)
2.3.7.
Pole screws
2.3.8.
Non-standard fasteners used in the automotive industry
3.
DUMPING
3.1.
Procedure for the determination of the normal value under Article 2(6a) of the basic Regulation
3.2.
Application of Article 18 of the basic Regulation
3.3.
Normal value
3.4.
Representative country
3.4.1.
General remarks
3.4.2.
A level of economic development similar to China
3.4.3.
Availability of relevant public data in the representative country
3.4.4.
Comments of the interested parties
3.4.5.
Level of social and environmental protection
3.4.6.
Conclusion
3.5.
Sources used to establish undistorted costs for factors of production
3.5.1.
Raw materials used in the production process
3.5.2.
Labour
3.5.3.
Electricity
3.5.4.
Gas
3.5.5.
Water
3.5.6.
Consumables/negligible quantities
3.5.7.
SG&A and profit
3.5.8.
Calculation of normal value
3.6.
Export price
3.7.
Comparison
3.8.
Dumping margins
3.9.
Comments from the interested parties following the final disclosure
3.9.1.
Status of the CCCME
3.9.2.
Selection of the representative country
3.9.3.
Benchmarks used for the calculation of the normal value
3.9.3.1. Benchmark and the calculation of the labour cost
3.9.3.2. Benchmark for electricity cost
3.9.3.3. Inland freight and import duties adjustment applied to the benchmark of the raw materials
3.9.4.
Calculation of the normal value
3.9.5.
Non-sampled cooperating exporting producers
3.9.6.
Level of cooperation
3.9.7.
The list of cooperating exporting producers
3.9.8.
Other claims
4.
INJURY
4.1.
Preliminary remarks
4.2.
Definition of the Union industry and Union production
4.3.
Union consumption
4.4.
Imports from the country concerned
4.4.1.
Volume and market share of the imports from the country concerned
4.4.2.
Prices of the imports from the country concerned and price undercutting
4.4.2.1. Claims on price comparability
4.5.
Economic situation of the Union industry
4.5.1.
Macroeconomic indicators
4.5.1.1. Production, production capacity and capacity utilisation
4.5.1.2. Sales volume and market share
4.5.1.3. Growth
4.5.1.4. Employment and productivity
4.5.1.5. Magnitude of the dumping margin and recovery from past dumping
4.5.2.
Microeconomic indicators
4.5.2.1. Prices and factors affecting prices
4.5.2.2. Labour cost
4.5.2.3. Inventories
4.5.2.4. Profitability, cash flow, investments, return on investments and ability to raise capital
4.5.3.
Conclusion on injury
5.
CAUSATION
5.1.
Effects of dumped imports
5.2.
Effects of other factors
5.2.1.
Imports from other third countries
5.2.2.
Decrease of the Union consumption
5.2.3.
Structural changes in the automotive sector
5.2.4.
Imports by the Union industry
5.2.5.
Competitive advantages of the Chinese exporting producers
5.2.6.
COVID-19 pandemic
5.2.7.
Mismanagement by the Union industry
5.3.
Conclusion on causation
6.
LEVEL OF THE MEASURES
6.1.
Injury elimination level (injury margin)
7.
UNION INTEREST
7.1.
Interest of the Union industry
7.2.
Interest of importers
7.3.
Interest of retailers – Do-it-yourself (DIY) sector
7.4.
Interest of users
7.5.
Shortage of supply of fasteners
7.6.
Switch of suppliers
7.7.
Other
7.8.
Conclusion on Union interest
7.9.
Price undertaking offers
8.
RETROACTIVE IMPOSITION OF ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES
9.
DEFINITIVE MEASURES
9.1.
Special monitoring clause
10.
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
ANNEX
Cooperating exporting producers not sampled