Judgment of the General Court of 21 February 2024 – Inner Mongolia Shuangxin Environment-Friendly Material v Commission

(Case T-763/20) ¹

(Dumping – Imports of certain polyvinyl alcohols originating in China – Definitive anti-dumping duty – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1336 – Calculation of the normal value – Significant distortions in the exporting country – Article 2(6a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 – WTO law – Principle of consistent interpretation – Choice of appropriate representative country – Readily available data – Non-cooperation – Definition of ‘necessary information’ – Article 18 of Regulation 2016/1036 – Price undercutting – Market segments – Product control number method – Article 3(2) and (3) of Regulation 2016/1036 – Rights of the defence – Confidential treatment – Articles 19 and 20 of Regulation 2016/1036)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Inner Mongolia Shuangxin Environment-Friendly Material Co. Ltd (Ordos, China) (represented by: J. Cornelis, F. Graafsma and E. Vermulst, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Luengo, acting as Agent)

Intervener in support of the applicant: Wegochem Europe BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: R. Antonini, E. Monard and B. Maniatis, lawyers)

Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: A. Neergaard, D. Moore and A. Pospíšilová Padowska, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: H. Marcos Fraile and B. Driessen, acting as Agents, and by N. Tuominen, lawyer), Kuraray Europe GmbH (Hattersheim am Main, Germany) (represented by: R. MacLean and D. Sevilla Pascual, lawyers), Sekisui Specialty Chemicals Europe SL (La Canonja, Spain) (represented by: A. Borsos and J. Jousma, lawyers)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of 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 2020 L 315, p. 1), in so far as it concerns the applicant.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Dismisses the action;

Orders Inner Mongolia Shuangxin Environment-Friendly Material Co. Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission, by Kuraray Europe GmbH and by Sekisui Specialty Chemicals Europe SL;

Orders the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and Wegochem Europe BV to bear their own costs.

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¹ OJ C 53, 15.2.2021.