Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1647 of 21 August 2023 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of certain coated fine paper originating in the People’s Republic of China following an expiry review pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1037 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/688 of 2 May 2019 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of certain organic coated steel products originating in the People’s Republic of China following an expiry review pursuant to Article 18 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/1037 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 116, 3.5.2019, p. 39).

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72 of 18 January 2022 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of optical fibre cables originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2011 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of optical fibre cables originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ L 12, 19.1.2022, p. 34)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287 of 17 December 2021 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of aluminium converter foil originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2170 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of aluminium converter foil originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ L 458, 22.12.2021, p. 344).

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/776 of 12 June 2020 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in the People's Republic of China and Egypt and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/492 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in the People's Republic of China and Egypt (OJ L 189, 15.6.2020, p. 1).

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/328 of 24 February 2021 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of continuous filament glass fibre products originating in the People’s Republic of China following an expiry review pursuant to Article 18 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/1037 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 65, 25.2.2021, p. 1).

See recital (60) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 452/2011.

The APP group: Sinar Mas Paper (China) Investment Co., Ltd, Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd, Gold Huasheng Paper (SuZhou Industrial Park) Co., Ltd, Ningbo Zhonghua Paper Industry Co., Ltd, Ningbo Asia Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.

The Chenming Group: Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited, Shouguang Chenming Art Paper Co.Ltd.

China's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) was adopted on 14 March 2011.

14^th Five-Year Plan, covering the years 2021-2025 passed by the Chinese parliament, the National People’s Congress, in March 2021

http://file.finance.sina.com.cn/211.154.219.97:9494/MRGG/CNSESZ_STOCK/2019/2019-3/2019-03-30/5140126.PDF pages 13 and 37

Decision No 40 of the State Council on Promulgating and Implementing the Temporary Provisions on Promoting Industrial Structure Adjustments.

See Annex 19 of the expiry review request concerning the Decision of the State Council on Promulgating the Implementing the “Temporary Provisions on Promoting Industrial Structure Adjustment”

For a similar conclusion see Regulation 452/2011, recital (76), and Regulation 2017/1187, recital (45), which observe that Decision No 40 is legally binding for public bodies as well as economic operators in China.

See GFR, recital (76)

See recitals (82) to (89) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 452/2011 and recitals 55 to 59 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187.

See Recital 100 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/969

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/969 of 8 June 2017 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/649 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ L 146, 9.6.2017, p. 17) (‘HRF case’), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1690 of 9 November 2018 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain pneumatic tyres, new or retreaded, of rubber, of a kind used for buses or lorries and with a load index exceeding 121 originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1579 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain pneumatic tyres, new or retreaded, of rubber, of a kind used for buses or lorries, with a load index exceeding 121 originating in the People’s Republic of China and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/163 (OJ L 283, 12.11.2018, p. 1) (‘Tyres case’) and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/72 of 17 January 2019 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of electric bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ L 16, 18.1.2019, p. 5) (‘E-bikes case’), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/776 of 12 June 2020 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in the People’s Republic of China and Egypt and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/492 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in the People’s Republic of China and Egypt (OJ L 189, 15.6.2020, p. 33) (‘GFF case’).

See recital (226) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72.

Introduction_The Export-Import Bank of China (eximbank.gov.cn)

See Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/328 recital (75)

See recital (266) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72.

See applicants’ request, Annex 20

See applicants’ request, Annex 20

See applicants’ request, Annex 16

See applicants’ request, Annex 16

See applicants’ request, Annex 16

See recital (274) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72.

Implementing Regulations of the Enterprise Income Tax Law of the People’s Republic of China - Order of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China No 714.

See recital (466) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72

See recital (476) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287

See applicants’ request recitals 221, 223 and 224.

See recital (503) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287 and recital (496) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72

2015 Annual Report of the Chenming Group, page 14.

Chenming Group 2018 Annual Report, page 157, 2019 Annual Report, page 146, and 2021 Interim Report, page 159.

Chenming Group 2018 Annual Report, page 254, 2019 Annual Report, page 253, 2020 Annual Report, page 266, and 2021 Interim Report, page 160.

Chenming Group 2018 Annual Report, pages 5, 157 and 254, 2019 Annual Report, pages 5 and , 146 and 253, 2020 Annual Report, pages 6 and 266, and 2021 Interim Report, pages 6, 159 and 160.

Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) 2020 Annual Report, pages 65, 69 and 97

Announcement [2021] No 13 of the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration on Further Improvements to the Policy of Weighted Pre-tax Deduction for Research and Development Expenses.

See recital (487) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287

See recital (335) of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 452/2011.

See recital (82) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187.

See paragraph 221 of the applicants’ request.

See recital (129) of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 452/2011

See recital (91) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187

See recital 211, 216, 233 and 235 of applicants’ request

See recital (499) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287 and recital (571) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/776.

See recital (142) of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 452/2011

See recital (100) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187

See recital (189)of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/688

Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1239/2013 of 2 December 2013, Solar panels original investigation, recital (336) to (342); Council Implementing Regulation ((EU) No 215/2013 of 11 March 2013 organic coated steel, recital (293) to (298).

See recital (152) of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 452/2011

See recital (111) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187

See Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Preferential Subsidies Policy, subsidies 47 to 49, Applicants’ request, Annex 34 Mass entrepreneurship and innovation

Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1239/2013 of 2 December 2013, Solar panels expiry review, recitals (384) to (392); Commission implementing regulation (EU) 2019/688 organic coated steel Recital (189)

See recital (176) of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 452/2011

See recital (119) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187

See recital (445)of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287, see recital (192) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72

See US CVD Sunset Review Uncoated Paper from China (2022) https://www.usitc.gov/publications/701_731/pub5275.pdf, page 9.

See recitals 43, 46 and 56 of the applicants’ request

See recital (445) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287, see recital (192) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72

See Chenming Group 2019 Annual Report, pages 5 and 253, and 2020 Annual Report, pages 6 and 266.

See recital (125) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/328 and recital (539) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287

See recital (251)of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 452/2011

See Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/776 GFF, recital 498

Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2287, ACF, recital 544.

See Chenming Group 2019 and 2020 Interim Report, page 217 and 229 respectively

See recital (130) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187

See Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72, OFC, rec. 453, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1690 Tyres, rec 429.

https://www.sinosure.com.cn/en/Sinosure/Profile/index.shtml.

See recital (105) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/328

OECD Study on Chinese export credit policies and programmes, page 7, para 32, available at https://www.oecd.org/ officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=TAD/ECG(2015)3&doclanguage=en, last accessed on 18 August 2021.

See Sinosure website, Company profile, Supporting ‘Made in China’, https://www.sinosure.com.cn/en/Resbonsiblity/smic/index.shtml, last accessed on 17 August 2021.

http://www.gov.cn/ldhd/2009-05/27/content_1326023.htm

See Sinosure profile https://www.sinosure.com.cn/en/Sinosure/Profile/index.shtml

China Credit Insurance Corporation (SINOSURE) Releases the National Risk Analysis Report for 2020 : Axton Global

See recital (112) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/328 and recital (458) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/72.

See recital (148) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187

See recital (149) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187

See recital (150) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1187

See Applicants’ request, Annex 7, RISI CWF capacities and demand reports.

See Expiry review request, Annex 7, RISI CWF capacities and demand reports.

Spare capacities are considered to be the difference between the existing Chinese CFP capacities, Chinese CFP demand and Chinese CFP exports from the request (see Annex 8, Svan data).

Overcapacities are considered to be the difference between the existing Chinese CFP capacities and domestic Chinese CFP demand.

See Annex 10 of the applicants’ request.

Recital 158 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 451/2011.

Svan data is a market research consultancy (https://svandata.com/)

Based on data from the sampled Union producers

Based on Ibid. It is the costs of production of the sampled Union producers to which the target profit was added.

During the RIP, freight costs were at abnormally high levels. Hence, the Commission used 2019 freight costs to calculate the theoretical Chinese landed prices. In accordance with the data from the expiry review request (Annex 28), the freight costs from China to the EU on average in 2019 amounted to 63 EUR per ton and the customs handling cost to 8 EUR per ton.

Data from the application's request. The EU landed price was calculated as the Chinese FOB prices to which ocean freight and customs handling costs were added.

Intergraf represents 21 national printing federations. The European printers represented by Intergraf are users of CFP and potentially importers of CFP from China.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Trade, Directorate G, Rue de la Loi 170, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

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).