Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1064 of 9 April 2024 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain alkyl phosphate esters originating in the People’s Republic of China

http://gxt.jiangsu.gov.cn/art/2021/9/3/art_6197_10099378.html (accessed on 29 January 2024).

Ibid., Section 5.2.6.1.

Ibid., Section 5.2.6.1.1.

Report – Chapter 6, p. 138-149.

Report – Chapter 9, p. 216.

Report – Chapter 9, p. 213-215.

Report – Chapter 9, p. 209-211.

Report – Chapter 13, p. 332-337.

Report – Chapter 13, p. 336.

Report – Chapter 13, p. 337-341.

Report – Chapter 6, p. 114-117.

Report – Chapter 6, p. 119.

Report – Chapter 6, p. 120.

Report – Chapter 6, p. 121-122, 126-128, 133-135.

See official policy document of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission of 28 August 2020: Three-year action plan for improving corporate governance of the banking and insurance sectors (2020-2022): http://www.cbirc.gov.cn/cn/view/pages/ItemDetail.html?docId=925393&itemId=928 (accessed on 29 January 2024). The Plan instructs to ‘further implement the spirit embodied in General Secretary Xi Jinping’s keynote speech on advancing the reform of corporate governance of the financial sector’. Moreover, the Plan’s Section II aims at promoting the organic integration of the Party’s leadership into corporate governance: ‘we shall make the integration of the Party’s leadership into corporate governance more systematic, standardised and procedure-based […] Major operational and management issues must have been discussed by the Party Committee before being decided upon by the Board of Directors or the senior management’.

See CBIRC’s Notice on the Commercial banks performance evaluation method, issued on 15 December 2020: http://jrs.mof.gov.cn/gongzuotongzhi/202101/t20210104_3638904.htm (accessed on 29 January 2024).

See IMF Working Paper ‘Resolving China’s Corporate Debt Problem’, by Wojciech Maliszewski, Serkan Arslanalp, John Caparusso, José Garrido, Si Guo, Joong Shik Kang, W. Raphael Lam, T. Daniel Law, Wei Liao, Nadia Rendak, Philippe Wingender, Jiangyan, October 2016, WP/16/203.

Report – Chapter 6, p. 121-122, 126-128, 133-135.

OECD (2019), OECD Economic Surveys: China 2019, OECD Publishing, Paris. p. 29, available at:

http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-04/20/content_5504241.htm (accessed on 29 January 2024).

See the 14th FYP, Article LXV.

World Bank Open Data – Upper Middle Income, https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/upper-middle-income.

25 October 2023, t23.005004.

19 January 2024, t24.000844.

Regulation (EU) 2015/755 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015 on common rules for imports from certain third countries (OJ L 123, 19.5.2015, p. 33) as amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/749 of 24 February 2017 (OJ L 113, 29.4.2017, p. 11). Article 2(7) of the basic Regulation considers that domestic prices in those countries cannot be used for the purpose of determining normal value.

https://www.ibge.gov.br/estatisticas/economicas/industria/9042-pesquisa-industrial-anual.html?=&t=resultados (last viewed on 13 February 2024), ref. t24.001909.

https://www.gov.br/mme/pt-br/assuntos/secretarias/sntep/publicacoes/boletins-mensais-de-energia/2023-1/ingles (last viewed on 16 February 2024).

Nomenclatura Comum do Mercosul (‘NCM’).

GTA imports are reported in litres. The conversion into tonnes (t) was based on the density of alcohol being 789 kg/m³ at 20 degrees centigrade and standard atmospheric pressure.

https://www.ibge.gov.br/estatisticas/economicas/industria/9042-pesquisa-industrial-anual.html?=&t=destaques (last viewed on 13 February 2024), ref. t24.001909.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3859598/5902521/KS-RA-07-015-EN.PDF NACE Rev. 2 is the classification of economic activities corresponding to ISIC Rev. 4 (International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities) at European level.

https://www.ibge.gov.br/en/statistics/economic/prices-and-costs/17136-national-consumer-pricce-index.html?edicao=36055&t=downloads (last viewed on 15 February 2024), ref. t24.001978.

https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/working-time/ (last viewed on 15 February 2024).

https://www.bcb.gov.br/controleinflacao/indicepreco and https://www.bcb.gov.br/conteudo/home-en/FAQs/FAQ%2002-Price%20Indices.pdf (last viewed on 18 February 2024), ref. t24.001914.

https://antigo.mme.gov.br/web/guest/secretarias/energia-eletrica/publicacoes/informativo-tarifario-de-energia-eletrica (last viewed on 16 February 2024).

https://www.gov.br/aneel/pt-br (last viewed on 18 February 2024).

Benchmark the Fuel Cost of Steam Generation, Energy Tips: STEAM, Steam Tip Sheet #15 (Fact Sheet), Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO), Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) (last viewed on 16 February 2024), ref. t24.001912. The methodology refers to the cost of saturated steam for typical values of operating pressure and feedwater temperature. In the application of the methodology, an average of these typical values was used.

https://www.gov.br/mme/pt-br/assuntos/secretarias/sntep/publicacoes/boletins-mensais-de-energia/2023-1/ingles (last viewed on 16 February 2024).

https://www.epe.gov.br/sites-pt/publicacoes-dados-abertos/publicacoes/PublicacoesArquivos/publicacao-748/topico-687/BEN2023.pdf Table 3.7.5.b, p. 90 (last viewed on 21 February 2024), ref. t24.001911.

https://www.elekeiroz.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Balanco-Publicacao-2022.pdf (last viewed on 13 February 2024), ref. t24.001982.

An indication, sign, token. Chiefly in plural.

Two unrelated importers provided a sampling reply, but only one provided a questionnaire reply.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1336 of 25 September 2020 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain polyvinyl alcohols originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ L 315, 29.9.2020, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/1336/oj).

http://www.think-real.com/ data available upon subscription.

The Note can be found in the file for interested parties under save number t23.005616.

There is a small captive market which represents below 2 % of the total Union consumption. Given its negligible size, no separate analysis of the captive market was done (see recitals 356 to 359 above).

Ranges are provided to protect the confidentiality of the post-importation costs provided by the single cooperating importing producer.

https://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/weight-to-volume (accessed on 18 March 2024).