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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/940 of 10 June 2021 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of birch plywood originating in Russia

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/940
of 10 June 2021
imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of birch plywood originating in Russia
1. PROCEDURE
1.1.
Initiation
1.2.
Amendment to the Notice of initiation
1.3.
Registration
1.4.
Interested parties
1.5.
Comments on initiation
1.5.1.
Inadequate open version
1.5.2.
No evidence of injury
1.6.
Sampling
1.6.1.
Sampling of Union producers
1.6.2.
Sampling of unrelated importers
1.6.3.
Sampling of exporting producers in Russia
1.7.
Individual examination
1.8.
Questionnaire replies and verification visits
1.9.
Investigation period and period considered
1.10.
Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU
2. PRODUCT CONCERNED AND LIKE PRODUCT
2.1.
Product concerned
2.2.
Like product
2.3.
Claims regarding product scope
2.3.1.
Product exclusion
2.3.2.
Product Scope
3. DUMPING
3.1.
Preliminary remarks
3.2. Normal value
3.2.1.
Export price
3.2.2.
Comparison
3.2.3.
Dumping margins
4. INJURY
4.1.
Definition of the Union industry and Union production
4.2.
Union consumption
4.3.
Imports from the country concerned
4.3.1.
Methodology for the identification of imports of the product concerned
4.3.2.
Volume and market share of the imports from the country concerned
4.3.3.
Prices of the imports from the country concerned and price undercutting
4.4.
Economic situation of the Union industry
4.4.1.
General remarks
4.4.2.
Macroeconomic indicators
4.4.2.1.
Production, production capacity and capacity utilisation
4.4.2.2.
Sales volume and market share
4.4.2.3.
Growth
4.4.2.4.
Employment and productivity
4.4.2.5.
Magnitude of the dumping margin and recovery from past dumping
4.4.3.
Microeconomic indicators
4.4.3.1.
Prices and factors affecting prices
4.4.3.2.
Labour costs
4.4.3.3.
Inventories
4.4.3.4.
Profitability, cash flow, investments, return on investments and ability to raise capital
4.4.4.
Conclusion on injury
5. CAUSATION
5.1. In accordance with Article 3(6) of the basic Regulation, the Commission examined whether the dumped imports from the country concerned caused material injury to the Union industry. In accordance with Article 3(7) of the basic Regulation, the Commission also examined whether other known factors could at the same time have injured the Union industry. The Commission ensured that any possible injury caused by factors other than the dumped imports from the country concerned was not attributed to the dumped imports. These factors are: Imports from third countries, export performance of the Union industry, consumption, competitive disadvantage in access to the main raw material, self-inflected injury, strikes in Finland, COVID-19 effects, product comparability.
5.2.
Effects of the dumped imports
5.3.
Effects of other factors
5.3.1.
Imports from third countries
5.3.2.
Export performance of the Union industry
5.3.3.
Competitive disadvantage in access to the main raw material
5.3.4.
Self-inflected injury
5.3.5.
Strikes in Finland
5.3.6.
COVID-19 effects
5.3.7.
Product comparability
5.4.
Conclusion on causation
6. LEVEL OF MEASURES
6.1.
Injury margin
7. UNION INTEREST
7.1.
Interest of the Union industry
7.2.
Interest of unrelated importers and traders
7.3.
Interest of users
7.4.
Interest of Suppliers
7.5.
Other interested parties: other wood plywood producers, environmental interest and COVID-19.
7.6.
Conclusion on Union interest
8. PROVISIONAL ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES
9. INFORMATION AT PROVISIONAL STAGE
10. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
ANNEX
Cooperating exporting producers not sampled