LegalizeCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1330 of 29 June 2023 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain lightweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council
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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/763 of 2 May 2017 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain lightweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea (OJ L 114, 3.5.2017, p. 3).
ECLI:EU:T:2020:139.
ECLI:EU:C:2022:370.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/593 of 16 March 2023 re-imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain lightweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea as regards the Hansol Group and amending the residual duty (OJ L 79, 17.3.2023, p. 54).
Notice of initiation of an expiry review of the anti-dumping measures applicable to imports of certain lightweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea (OJ C 180, 3.5.2022, p. 4).
Request section 10.3, pages 26-28.
https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/investigations/case-view?caseId=2596
See for example paragraph 68 of Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber), 17 March 2015 in Case T-466/12, RFA International, LP v European Commission.
For details, see recital (40) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2005 of 16 November 2016 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain lightweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea (OJ L 310, 17.11.2016, p. 1)
Request, para. 99 to 101 (pages 23-24).
Laves Chemie Consulting: Thermal Paper 2019-2024 World Market Study, Annex 6 to the request (t22.002094).
Laves Chemie Consulting: Thermal Paper 2019-2024 World Market Study, Annex 6 to the request, page 19.
Open version of questionnaire replies in t22.003621 (Koehler), t22.003615 (Jujo) and t22.003616 (Mitshubishi).
For an excerpt, see, inter alia, page 24 of the request.
For Hansol Paper’s financial report covering the first three quarters of 2022, see https://dart.fss.or.kr/dsaf001/main.do?rcpNo=20221111000618 (in Korean).
On 10 May 2022 (t22.002756) Hansol Paper referred to itself as “the main exporting producer of LWTP in Korea”.
Company website: http://www.donghwaind.co.kr
See footnotes 16 and 17 above.
The 2022 Hansol Paper Sustainability report is available at https://www.hansolpaper.co.kr/m/eng/management/data. Page 10 of the report reads: “Janghang Mill ... has a flexible facility system that can swing special material paper such as high-quality printing paper, thermal paper and label paper according to market conditions…. Shintanjin Mill... has a flexible facility system to produce printing paper and thermal paper...”.
Laves Chemie Consulting: Thermal Paper 2019-2024 World Market Study, Annex 6 to the request, table “Balance of Supply and Demand in Metric Tonnes”, page 22, established that thermal paper consumption in Korea amounted to 60 000 tonnes in 2019. The open version of the questionnaire replies in t22.003621 (Koehler), t22.003615 (Jujo) and t22.003616 (Mitshubishi) estimated lightweight thermal paper yearly consumption in Korea at 37 200 tonnes.
Hansol Paper’s questionnaire reply (t22.003569), table C.2 (sales quantity).
Ibid.
Request, Annex 6, page 21 (“Korea exports 78% of production to North and Central & South America, and also to other Asian countries. …”).
Hansol Paper’s questionnaire reply (t22.003569), tables K.3 of the file “R768 Tables K-L-M (HAI) - OPEN.pdf”, in light of which, over the period under review, the turnover of the product under review of Hansol America fell by 13 % whereas sales volume increased by 2 %. It is to be noted that, in light of the U.S. Census Bureau, the prices of Korean thermal paper fell from 2 223 USD/tonne in 2018 to 1 645 USD/tonne in 2020 (see “import statistics” in the following website of the International Trade Administration of the US: https://www.trade.gov/faq/final-determinations-antidumping-duty-investigations-thermal-paper-germany-japan-south-korea).
See the official website of the International Trade Administration of the US, namely https://www.trade.gov/faq/final-determinations-antidumping-duty-investigations-thermal-paper-germany-japan-south-korea.
Request, Annex 6, tables “Consumption by Grade and Geographic Area 2020”, “Consumption by Geographic Area in Metric Tonnes 2022-2024” and “Consumption by Grade and Geographic Area 2024”.
Hansol Paper’s questionnaire reply (t22.003569), tables K.3 of the file “R768 Tables K-L-M (HEB) - OPEN.pdf”.
Request, Annex 6, page 21 (“Korea exports 78% of production mainly to North and Central & South America, and also to other Asian countries. (…) Central & South America exports are insignificant. Imports (into Central & South America) are 50% of consumption mainly from Europe, North America, China, and Korea. ROW countries in this context comprise Asia (except China, Japan, Korea), Africa, and Australasia. Exports (by ROW countries) are insignificant but ROW countries import 80% of consumption mainly from Korea, China and Europe…”).
In light of the U.S. Census Bureau, thermal paper imports from Korea amounted to 54 337 tonnes in 2020 (see “import statistics” in the following website of the International Trade Administration of the US: https://www.trade.gov/faq/final-determinations-antidumping-duty-investigations-thermal-paper-germany-japan-south-korea).
Source: questionnaire reply submitted by the applicant and verified individual questionnaire replies of the sampled Union producers.
Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 (OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1).
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