LegalizeCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/36 of 9 January 2025 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain polyvinyl chloride originating in Egypt and the United States
(11) Judgment of 24 February 2022, Eurofer, Association Européenne de l’Acier, AISBL v European Commission, C-226/20P, EU:C:2022:122, para. 90.
(12) Article 5.8 of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement.
(13) Commission Decision 2007/214/EC of 3 April 2007 terminating the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of pentaerythritol originating in the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine and the United States of America (OJ L 94, 4.4.2007, p. 55, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2007/214/oj).
(14) In any event, the Commission recalls that the legality of regulations imposing anti-dumping duties shall be assessed by reference to applicable legal rules and not by reference to past administrative practice. See Judgment of 12 March 2020, Eurofer v Commission, T-835/17, EU:T:2020:96, paragraph 76 (‘ [t]he lawfulness of a regulation imposing anti-dumping duties or, as in the present case, terminating the proceedings without imposing anti-dumping duties, must be assessed in the light of legal rules, and in particular, the provisions of the basic Regulation, not on the basis of the Commission’s and the Council’s alleged previous decision-making practice.’).
(15) Appellate Body Report, China – HP-SSST (Japan/EU), para. 5.159., Panel Report, China – GOES, para. 7.528.
(16) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/product/view/ds-056121__custom_12544654?lang=en.
(17) Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber), 29 January 2014, Hubei Xinyegang Steel Co. Ltd v Council of the European Union, https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=40954BAF1F62AA7A028721CFC94C10D9?text=&docid=147002&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=1702873.
(18) Judgment of 29 January 2014, Hubei v Council, T-528/09, EU:T:2014:35, paragraph 61.
(19) Monthly ethylene prices globally 2024 | Statista (last accessed 13 November 2024).
(21) Capacity utilisation rate 91 % in 2020 and 2021 (see Table 4 of the provisional Regulation).
(22) See the webpage of the Council of the European Union for further information about this topic (https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/energy-prices-and-security-of-supply/#:~:text=In%20December%202023%2C%20one%20megawatt,energy%20imports%20away%20from%20Russia).
(23) Case C-10/12 P, Transnational Company ‘Kazchrome’ AO and ENRC Marketing AG v Council of the European Union, para 13.
(24) Oxy Vinyls (https://www.chemorbis.com/en/plastics-news/Production-News-Oxy---America---PVC-/2021/02/17/810029#reportH), Westlake (Westlake lifts US PVC force majeure: letter | S&P Global) and Formosa (https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/chemicals/070621-formosa-plastics-usa-lifts-february-force-majeure-on-pvc-letter).
(25) Meraxis and Rehau hearing of 24 April 2024, Slides 7 to 9.
(26) European Commission, Directorate-General for Trade, Directorate G, Wetstraat 170 Rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
(27) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (OJ L, 2024/2509, 26.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj).
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