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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/547 of 5 April 2022 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of superabsorbent polymers originating in the Republic of Korea

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/547
of 5 April 2022
imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of superabsorbent polymers originating in the Republic of Korea
1.
PROCEDURE
1.1.
Initiation
1.2.
Comments on initiation
1.2.1.
Examination of Union interest in the complaint
1.2.2.
Complaint inflated dumping and undercutting margin
1.2.3.
Level of trade
1.2.4.
Open version of complaint does not allow understanding of price undercutting information
1.2.5.
Aggressive pricing from Far East Asian imports in 2019
1.2.6.
Unjustified target profit in complaint
1.2.7.
Investment data in the complaint should not be treated as confidential
1.2.8.
Evidence for causal link to South Korean imports
1.3.
Registration of imports, non-imposition of provisional measures and subsequent procedure
1.4.
Investigation period and period considered
1.5.
Interested parties
1.6.
Sampling
1.6.1.
Sampling of Union producers
1.6.2.
Sampling of importers
1.6.3.
Sampling of exporting producers in the Republic of Korea
1.7.
Questionnaire replies and verification visits
1.8.
Definitive disclosure
2.
PRODUCT CONCERNED AND LIKE PRODUCT
2.1.
Product concerned
2.2.
Like product
2.3.
Claims regarding product scope
2.3.1.
Exclusion request for spec-in products
2.3.2.
Exclusion request for odour-control SAP
2.3.3.
Exclusion request for Bio SAP
2.3.4.
Exclusion request for industrial SAP
2.3.5.
PCN breakdown proposals
2.3.6.
Product exclusion request for SAP Generation 8 & 9
2.3.7.
Product exclusion request by Kimberly-Clark
3.
DUMPING
3.1.
Normal value
3.2.
Export price
3.3.
Undertaking offer
3.4.
Comparison
3.5.
Dumping margin
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 country concerned
4.4.1.
Volume and market share of the imports from the country concerned
4.4.2.
Prices of the imports from the country concerned and price undercutting
4.4.3.
Claim of no undercutting in 2018 due to price increases
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. Drop in capacity utilisation caused by increase of capacity
4.5.2.3. Capacity of Sumitomo Seika not considered
4.5.2.4. Sales volume and market share
4.5.2.5. Growth
4.5.2.6. Employment and productivity
4.5.2.7. Magnitude of the dumping margin and recovery from past dumping
4.5.3.
Microeconomic indicators
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.
Increased demand of spec-in products
5.2.2.
Price formula in raw material supply contracts
5.2.3.
Imports from third countries
5.2.4.
Export performance of the Union industry
5.2.5.
COVID-19 pandemic
5.2.6.
Injury caused by costs of capacity increases
5.2.7.
Significant R&D costs
5.2.8.
Global price negotiations
5.3.
Conclusion on causation
6.
UNION INTEREST
6.1.
Interest of the Union industry
6.2.
Interest of users
6.3.
Other factors
6.4.
Conclusion on Union interest
7.
LEVEL OF MEASURES
7.1.
Injury elimination level (injury margin)
8.
DEFINITIVE MEASURES
9.
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Article 2