This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Article 1 shall apply for a period of six months.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 11 July 2024.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 21 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/1036/oj .

( 2 ) Notice of initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of mobile access equipment (‘MAE’), originating in the People’s Republic of China, ( OJ C, C/2023/783, 13.11.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/783/oj ).

( 3 ) Zhejiang Dingli Machinery Co., Ltd., Hunan Sinoboom Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd, Fronteq (Changzhou) Machinery Co., Ltd., XCMG Fire-fighting Safety Equipment Co., Ltd, Zoomlion Intelligent Access Machinery Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Liugong Machinery, Co., Ltd, Lingong Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd and Sany Aerial Work Equipment Co., Ltd.

( 4 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1450 of 23 May 2024 making imports of mobile access equipment originating in the People’s Republic of China subject to registration ( OJ L, 2024/1450, 24.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1450/oj ).

( 5 ) Commission Staff Working Document on Significant Distortions in the Economy of the People’s Republic of China for the purposes of Trade Defence Investigations, 20 December 2017 (SWD(2017) 483 final/2).

( 6 ) For an English version of the full text of the 14th FYP, see for example at: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-14th-five-year-plan (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 7 ) Commission Staff Working Document on Significant Distortions in the Economy of the People’s Republic of China for the purposes of Trade Defence Investigations, 10 April 2024 (SWD(2024) 91 final).

( 8 ) Updated Report – Chapter 2, p. 7

( 9 ) Updated Report – Chapter 2, pp. 7–8.

( 10 ) Updated Report – Chapter 2, pp. 10, 18.

( 11 ) Available at: http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Constitution/node_2825.htm (accessed on 8 April 2024).

( 12 ) Updated Report – Chapter 2, pp. 29–30.

( 13 ) Updated Report – Chapter 4, pp. 57, 92.

( 14 ) Updated Report – Chapter 6, pp. 149–150.

( 15 ) Updated Report – Chapter 6, pp. 153–171.

( 16 ) Updated Report – Chapter 7, pp. 204–205.

( 17 ) Updated Report – Chapter 8, pp. 207–208, 242–243.

( 18 ) Updated Report – Chapter 2, pp. 19–24, Chapter 4, p. 69, pp. 99–100, Chapter 5, pp. 130–131.

( 19 ) See the company’s 2022 annual report, p. 89; available at: http://file.finance.sina.com.cn/211.154.219.97:9494/MRGG/CNSESZ_STOCK/2023/2023-4/2023-04-29/9182574.PDF (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 20 ) See the company’s 2023 annual report, p. 114; available at: http://file.finance.sina.com.cn/211.154.219.97:9494/MRGG/CNSESZ_STOCK/2024/2024-3/2024-03-30/9930890.PDF (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 21 ) See the company’s 2023 annual report, p. 135; available at: https://q.stock.sohu.com/newpdf/202457231354.pdf (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 22 ) Updated Report – Chapter 2, pp. 24-27.

( 23 ) See at: http://www.cncma.org/ (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 24 ) See at: http://www.cncma.org//article/480?pageTitle=%E5%88%86%E4%BC%9A%E5%90%8D%E5%BD%95 (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 25 ) See at: http://www.cncma.org/article/472 (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 26 ) Ibid.

( 27 ) See the list of CCMA’s members, available at: http://www.cncma.org//article/478?pageTitle=%E4%BC%9A%E5%91%98%E5%90%8D%E5%BD%95 (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 28 ) Article 33 of the CCP Constitution, Article 19 of the Chinese Company Law. See updated Report – Chapter 3, pp. 47–50.

( 29 ) Updated Report – Chapter 3, p. 40.

( 30 ) See for example: Blanchette, J. – Xi’s Gamble: The Race to Consolidate Power and Stave off Disaster ; Foreign Affairs, vol. 100, no. 4, July/August 2021, pp. 10–19.

( 31 ) Updated Report – Chapter 3, p. 41.

( 32 ) Available at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-congress-companies-idUSKCN1B40JU (accessed on 8 April 2024).

( 33 ) General Office of CCP Central Committee’s Guidelines on stepping up the United Front work in the private sector for the new era: www.gov.cn/zhengce/2020-09/15/content_5543685.htm (accessed on 8 April 2024).

( 34 ) Financial Times (2020) – Chinese Communist Party asserts greater control over private enterprise: https://on.ft.com/3mYxP4j (accessed on 8 April 2024).

( 35 ) See the company’s 2022 annual report, p. 45; available at: http://file.finance.sina.com.cn/211.154.219.97:9494/MRGG/CNSESZ_STOCK/2023/2023-4/2023-04-29/9182574.PDF (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 36 ) See at: https://www.xcmg.com/aboutus/news-detail-1127478.htm (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 37 ) See the company’s 2023 annual report, p. 55; available at: http://file.finance.sina.com.cn/211.154.219.97:9494/MRGG/CNSESZ_STOCK/2024/2024-3/2024-03-30/9930890.PDF (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 38 ) See at: http://file.finance.sina.com.cn/211.154.219.97:9494/MRGG/CNSESZ_STOCK/2023/2023-12/2023-12-29/9750475.PDF (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 39 ) Ibid.

( 40 ) See the company’s 2023 annual report, p. 47; available at: https://q.stock.sohu.com/newpdf/202457231354.pdf (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 41 ) See at: https://www.sohu.com/a/474336777_120808812 (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 42 ) See at: https://www.csust.edu.cn/qjxy/info/1483/13510.htm#:~:text=%E5%88%98%E5%9B%BD%E8%89%AF%EF%BC%8C%E5%85%A8%E7%90%83%E5%B7%A5%E7%A8%8B%E6%9C%BA%E6%A2%B0TOP50,%E5%8D%81%E5%9B%9B%E5%B1%8A%E4%BA%BA%E5%A4%A7%E4%BB%A3%E8%A1%A8%E3%80%82 (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 43 ) See at: https://stock.hnchasing.com/main/aboutUs/jtyw/detail/1600404406236819458.html (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 44 ) Updated Report – Chapter 14, Sections 14.1 to 14.3.

( 45 ) Updated Report – Chapter 4, pp. 56–57, 99–100.

( 46 ) See Section III.6.3 of the 14th FYP.

( 47 ) See Section III and Box I; available at: https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/202307/content_6889718.htm (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 48 ) See at: https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/202309/content_6901732.htm (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 49 ) Ibid

( 50 ) Ibid, see Section III.4.2

( 51 ) See at: 157823f5651e42ea85038c86b74becca.pdf (zj.gov.cn) (accessed on 30 May 2024).

( 52 ) Ibid., Section III.6.

( 53 ) See at: http://cpc.people.com.cn/n1/2024/0529/c64387-40245669.html (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 54 ) See at: http://js.news.cn/20230801/a47ffa9814f94a6c8345969906ea2aec/c.html , (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 55 ) See at: https://www.xhby.net/content/s6639f820e4b0706ddc4cddda.html (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 56 ) See at: https://gxt.jiangsu.gov.cn/art/2024/4/2/art_6281_11208011.html (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 57 ) See https://www.xhby.net/content/s6639f820e4b0706ddc4cddda.html (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 58 ) See http://js.news.cn/20230801/a47ffa9814f94a6c8345969906ea2aec/c.html (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 59 ) Updated Report – Chapter 6, pp. 171–179.

( 60 ) Updated Report – Chapter 9, pp. 260–261.

( 61 ) Updated Report – Chapter 9, pp. 257–260.

( 62 ) Updated Report – Chapter 9, pp. 252–254.

( 63 ) See https://www.js.gov.cn/art/2022/11/14/art_63909_10663820.html (Accessed 31 May 2024).

( 64 ) Updated Report – Chapter 13, pp. 360–361, 364–370.

( 65 ) Updated Report – Chapter 13, p. 366.

( 66 ) Updated Report – Chapter 13, pp. 370–373.

( 67 ) Updated Report – Chapter 6, pp. 137–140.

( 68 ) Updated Report – Chapter 6, pp. 146–149.

( 69 ) Updated Report – Chapter 6, p. 149.

( 70 ) See official policy document of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission of 28 August 2020: Three-year action plan for improving corporate governance of the banking and insurance sectors (2020–2022 ): http://www.cbirc.gov.cn/cn/view/pages/ItemDetail.html?docId=925393&itemId=928 (accessed on 8 April 2024). The Plan instructs to ‘further implement the spirit embodied in General Secretary Xi Jinping’s keynote speech on advancing the reform of corporate governance of the financial sector’. Moreover, the Plan’s section II aims at promoting the organic integration of the Party’s leadership into corporate governance: ‘we shall make the integration of the Party’s leadership into corporate governance more systematic, standardised and procedure-based […] Major operational and management issues must have been discussed by the Party Committee before being decided upon by the Board of Directors or the senior management’.

( 71 ) See CBIRC’s Notice on the Commercial banks performance evaluation method, issued on 15 December 2020: http://jrs.mof.gov.cn/gongzuotongzhi/202101/t20210104_3638904.htm (accessed on 8 April 2024).

( 72 ) Updated Report – Chapter 6, pp. 157–158.

( 73 ) Updated Report – Chapter 6, pp. 150–152, 156–160, 165–171.

( 74 ) OECD (2019), OECD Economic Surveys: China 2019, OECD Publishing, Paris. p. 29, available at:

https://doi.org/10.1787/eco_surveys-chn-2019-en (accessed on 8 April 2024).

( 75 ) http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-04/20/content_5504241.htm (accessed on 8 April 2024).

( 76 ) See for example: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/02/02/cf-chinas-real-estate-sector-managing-the-medium-term-slowdown (accessed on 31 May 2024). See for example the recent observations by the IMF at: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/02/02/cf-chinas-real-estate-sector-managing-the-medium-term-slowdown and https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/05/28/pr24184-china-imf-staff-completes-2024-art-iv-mission (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 77 ) https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/upper-middle-income

( 78 ) https://www.ibge.gov.br/estatisticas/economicas/industria/9042-pesquisa-industrial-anual.html?=&t=destaques

( 79 ) https://www.gov.br/mme/pt-br/assuntos/secretarias/sntep/publicacoes/boletins-mensais-de-energia/2022-2/ingles/brazilian-monthly-energy-bulletin-december-2022.pdf/view

( 80 ) https://www.gov.br/mme/pt-br/assuntos/secretarias/sntep/publicacoes/boletins-mensais-de-energia/2022-2/ingles

( 81 ) See for example: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/02/02/cf-chinas-real-estate-sector-managing-the-medium-term-slowdown (accessed on 31 May 2024). See for example the recent observations by the IMF at: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/02/02/cf-chinas-real-estate-sector-managing-the-medium-term-slowdown and https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/05/28/pr24184-china-imf-staff-completes-2024-art-iv-mission (accessed on 31 May 2024).

( 82 ) https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/upper-middle-income

( 83 ) https://www.ibge.gov.br/estatisticas/economicas/industria/9042-pesquisa-industrial-anual.html?=&t=destaques

( 84 ) Regulation (EU) 2015/755 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015 on common rules for imports from certain third countries ( OJ L 123, 19.5.2015, p. 33 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2015/755/oj ). Article 2(7) of the basic Regulation considers that domestic prices in those countries cannot be used for the purpose of determining normal value.

( 85 ) https://www.ibge.gov.br/estatisticas/economicas/industria/9042-pesquisa-industrial-anual.html?=&t=downloads .

( 86 ) Idem.

( 87 ) INSS: The Brazilian Salaries and Benefits – BPC Partners (bpc-partners.com) and https://bpc-partners.com/fact-sheets/inss-brazilian-salaries-benefits .

( 88 ) https://ads.clicrbs.com.br/PUBLICIDADE-LEGAL/PIO/Publicidade_Legal_PIO_290324_madalpalfinger.pdf .

( 89 ) It is considered that the cooperating exporting producers represent nearly 100 % of the imports to the Union from the PRC.

( 90 ) Imports statistics in Comext were reported in tonnes. The Commission converted the tonnes to units based on a conversion ratio established based on the data of the cooperating exporting producers.

( 91 ) The Commission used a conversion factor of 4 888 kg per unit.

( 92 ) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff ( OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1987/2658/oj )..

( 93 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code ( OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2015/2447/oj ).

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/1915 of 11 July 2024 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of mobile access equipment originating in the People’s Republic of China ANNEX