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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/939 of 10 June 2021 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of mono ethylene glycol originating in the United States of America and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/939
of 10 June 2021
imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of mono ethylene glycol originating in the United States of America and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1. PROCEDURE
1.1.
Initiation
1.2.
Interested parties
1.3.
Comments on initiation
1.3.1.
Comments on dumping
1.3.2.
Comments on injury
1.4.
Sampling
1.4.1.
Sampling of Union producers
1.4.2.
Sampling of importers
1.4.3.
Sampling of exporting producers in the United States of America
1.4.4.
Sampling of exporting producers in the KSA
1.5.
Questionnaire replies and remote cross-checks
1.6.
Investigation period and period considered
2. PRODUCT CONCERNED AND LIKE PRODUCT
2.1.
Product concerned
2.2.
Like product
2.3.
Claims regarding product scope
3. DUMPING
3.1.
KSA
3.1.1.
Normal value
3.1.2.
Adjustments to the cost of manufacturing
3.1.3.
Export price
3.1.4.
Comparison
3.1.5.
Dumping margin
3.2.
United States of America
3.2.1.
Normal value
3.2.2.
Allocation of costs to the product concerned
3.2.3.
Export price
3.2.4.
Construction of the export price when sold to a related processor in the Union
3.2.5.
Comparison
3.2.6.
Dumping margins
4. INJURY
4.1.
Definition of the Union industry and Union production
4.2.
Determination of the relevant Union market
4.3.
Union consumption
4.4.
Imports from the countries concerned
4.4.1.
Cumulative assessment of the effects of imports from the countries concerned
4.4.2.
Volume and market share of the imports from the countries concerned
4.4.3.
Prices of the imports from the countries concerned and price undercutting
4.5.
Economic situation of the Union industry
4.5.1.
General remarks
4.5.2.
Macroeconomic indicators
4.5.2.1.
Production, production capacity and capacity utilisation
4.5.2.2.
Sales volume and market share
4.5.2.3.
Growth
4.5.2.4.
Employment and productivity
4.5.2.5.
Magnitude of the dumping margin and recovery from past dumping
4.5.3.
Microeconomic indicators
(9)
4.5.3.1.
Prices and factors affecting prices
4.5.3.2.
Labour costs
4.5.3.3.
Inventories
4.5.3.4.
Profitability, cash flow, investments, return on investments and ability to raise capital
4.5.4.
Conclusion on injury
5. CAUSATION
5.1.
Effects of the dumped imports
5.2.
Effects of other factors
5.2.1.
Imports from third countries
5.2.2.
Export performance of the Union industry
5.2.3.
Captive sales
5.2.4.
Other more profitable products than MEG
5.2.5.
Depreciation expenses
5.2.6.
Cost of raw materials/lack of competitiveness
5.2.7.
COVID-19 pandemic
5.2.8.
MEG as a globally traded commodity
5.2.9.
Price of oil
5.2.10.
US-China ‘trade war’
5.2.11.
Global depression in prices during the period considered
5.2.12.
Self-inflicted injury
5.2.13.
Imports of PET into the Union
5.3.
Conclusion on causation
6. LEVEL OF MEASURES
6.1.
Injury margin
6.2.
Conclusion on the level of measures
7. UNION INTEREST
7.1.
Interest of the Union industry
7.2.
Interest of unrelated importers/traders, users and suppliers
7.2.1.
General
7.3.
Interest of unrelated importers/traders
7.4.
Interest of users
7.5.
Interest of suppliers
7.6.
Comments received
7.7.
Conclusion on Union interest
8. PROVISIONAL ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES
9. INFORMATION AT PROVISIONAL STAGE
10. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
ANNEX
United States cooperating exporting producers not sampled