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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1896 of 11 July 2024 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain polyvinyl chloride (PVC) originating in Egypt and the United States of America

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/1896
of 11 July 2024
imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain polyvinyl chloride (‘PVC’) originating in Egypt and the United States of America
1. PROCEDURE
1.1.
Initiation
1.2.
Registration
1.3.
Interested parties
1.4.
Sampling
1.4.1.
Sampling of Union producers
1.4.2.
Sampling of importers
1.4.3.
Sampling of exporting producers in Egypt
1.4.4.
Sampling of exporting producers in the United States of America
1.5.
Individual examination
1.6.
Comments on initiation
1.7.
Questionnaire replies and verification visits
1.8.
Investigation period and period considered
2. PRODUCT UNDER INVESTIGATION, PRODUCT CONCERNED AND LIKE PRODUCT
2.1.
Product under investigation
2.2.
Product concerned
2.3.
Like product
3. DUMPING
3.1.
Egypt
3.1.1.
Cooperation of exporting producers
3.1.2.
Unrelated traders
3.1.3.
Normal value
3.1.4.
Export price
3.1.5.
Comparison
3.1.6.
Dumping margins
3.2.
United States of America
3.2.1.
Unrelated traders
3.2.2.
Normal value
3.2.3.
Export price
3.2.4.
Dumping margins
4. INJURY
4.1.
Definition of the Union industry and Union production
4.2.
Determination of the relevant Union market
4.3.
Union consumption
4.4.
Imports from the countries concerned
4.4.1.
Cumulative assessment of the effects of imports from the countries concerned
4.4.2.
Volume and market share of the imports from the countries concerned
4.4.3.
Prices of the imports from the countries concerned and price undercutting / price suppression
4.5.
Economic situation of the Union industry
4.5.1.
General remarks
4.5.2.
Macroeconomic indicators
4.5.2.1.
Production, production capacity and capacity utilisation
4.5.2.2.
Sales volume and market share
4.5.2.3.
Growth
4.5.2.4.
Employment and productivity
4.5.2.5.
Magnitude of the dumping margin and recovery from past dumping
4.5.3.
Microeconomic indicators
4.5.3.1.
Prices and factors affecting prices
4.5.3.2.
Labour costs
4.5.3.3.
Inventories
4.5.3.4.
Profitability, cash flow, investments, return on investments and ability to raise capital
4.5.4.
Conclusion on injury
5. CAUSATION
5.1.
Effects of the dumped imports
5.2.
Effects of other factors
5.2.1.
Imports from third countries
5.2.2.
Export performance of the Union industry
5.2.3.
Overcapacity in the PVC industry
5.2.4.
Energy crisis in the Union
5.2.5.
Economic contraction, market dynamics
5.2.6.
Force majeure
5.3.
Conclusion on causation
6. LEVEL OF MEASURES
6.1.
Injury margin
6.2.
Conclusion on the level of measures
7. UNION INTEREST
7.1.
Interest of the Union industry
7.2.
Importers
7.3.
Users
7.4.
Conclusion on Union interest
8. PROVISIONAL ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES
9. INFORMATION AT PROVISIONAL STAGE
10. FINAL PROVISION
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3