Judgment of the General Court of 4 March 2010 - Foshan City Nanhai Golden Step Industrial v Council
(Dumping - Imports of footwear with uppers of leather originating in China and Vietnam - Calculation of the constructed normal value - Export price - Rights of the defence - Injury - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Foshan City Nanhai Golden Step Industrial Co., Ltd (Lishui, China) (represented by: I. MacVay, Solicitor, R. Thompson QC, and K. Beal, Barrister)
Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: J.-P. Hix, acting as Agent, assisted by G. Berrisch, lawyer)
Interveners in support of the defendant : European Commission (represented by: H. van Vliet and T. Scharf, acting as Agents) and Confédération européenne de l'industrie de la chaussure (CEC) (Brussels, Belgium) (represented; initially by P. Vlaemminck, G. Zonnekeyn and S. Verhulst and subsequently by P. Vlaemminck and A. Hubert, lawyers)
Re:
Application for partial annulment of Council Regulation (EC) No 1472/2006 of 5 October 2006 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitely the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain footwear with uppers of leather originating in the People's Republic of China and Vietnam (OJ 2006 L 275, p. 1), in so far as it concerns the applicant.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Foshan City Nanhai Golden Step Industrial Co., Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union;
Orders the European Commission and Confédération européenne de l'industrie de la chaussure (CEC) to bear their own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 42, 24.2.2007.