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

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

Done at Brussels, 13 March 2025

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 55 .

( 2 ) OJ C 1483, 16.02.2024 , p. 1.

( 3 ) The term ‘GOM’ is used in this Regulation in a broad sense, including the State Council, as well as all Ministries, Departments, Agencies, and Administrations at central, regional, or local level.

( 4 ) Tron save number: t24.001626.

( 5 ) OJ C 464, 17.11.2021, p. 19 .

( 6 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/99 of 11 January 2023 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain aluminium road wheels originating in Morocco ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/99/oj ( OJ L 10, 12.1.2023, p.1 ).

( 7 ) The term ‘GOC’ is used in this Regulation in a broad sense, including the State Council, as well as all Ministries, Departments, Agencies, and Administrations at central, regional or local level.

( 8 ) Tron save numbers: t24.003099 and t24.003771.

( 9 ) OJ L 70, 18.3.2000, p. 2 , as subsequently amended. The consolidated version can be found at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02000A0318(01)-20190719 .

( 10 ) OJ L 176, 5.7.2011, p. 2 .

( 11 ) Final Report of the Arbitration Panel established pursuant to Article 307 of the Association Agreement between Ukraine, of the one part, and the European Union and its Member States, of the other part, “Restrictions applied by Ukraine on exports of certain wood products to the European Union,” 11 December 2020.

( 12 ) https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/investigations/case-history?caseId=2716 .

( 13 ) Tron save number, t24.009219 – 23/10/2024.

( 14 ) Hong Kong Companies Registry. Available at https://www.e-services.cr.gov.hk/ .

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( 16 ) Morocco and China sign Joint Belt and Road Implementation Plan. Available at https://diplomatie.ma/en/morocco-and-china-sign-joint-belt-and-road-implementation-plan (last viewed 5 February 2025).

( 17 ) Panel Report, Mexico – Anti-Dumping Measures on Rice, paras. 7.193-7.194.

( 18 ) 2021 Annual report of AMDIE. Available at https://www.morocconow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Rapport-dactivite-AMDIE-2021-Francais-.pdf (last viewed 18 January 2025).

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( 20 ) Usine de Tanger. Available at https://www.renaultgroup.com/groupe/implantations/usine-tanger (last viewed 18 December 2024).

( 21 ) Oxford Business Group, 2018 Morocco Report, “Industry overview: New ecosystem”, pp. 85-91. Available at https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/reports/morocco/2018-report/industry (last viewed 18 January 2025).

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( 25 ) Industrial Acceleration Plan 2014-2020. Available at https://www.mcinet.gov.ma/en/content/industrial-acceleration-plan-2014-2020 (last viewed 3 January 2025).

( 26 ) Ibid.

( 27 ) CDG: Supporting the PSA Group in the establishment of a car factory in Morocco. Available at https://cdg.ma/en/cdg-cdg-supporting-psa-group-establishment-car-factory-morocco (last viewed 3 January 2025).

( 28 ) PSA Peugeot Citroën and the Kingdom of Morocco signed an agreement for the implementation of an industrial complex. Available at https://www.mcinet.gov.ma/en/content/psa-peugeot-citro%C3%ABn-and-kingdom-morocco-signed-agreement-implementation-industrial-complex-0# (last viewed 3 January 2025).

( 29 ) Plan d’Accélération Industrielle, p. 2. Available at https://attijarientreprises.com/sites/default/files/2022-03/Plan_d_Acceleration_Industrielle.pdf (last viewed 3 January 2025).

( 30 ) Decree No. 2-14-715 of 2 Rabii 11436 (25 December 2014) designating the authorising officers of the special allocation account entitled the Industrial Development and Investment Fund.

( 31 ) A partnership agreement was also signed with the Banque Central Populaire, and the Banque Marocain du Commerce Extérieur in July 2015 and with Crédit Agricole du Maroc in June 2023. Available at https://www.maroc.ma/en/news/automotive-industry-ministry-professional-association-sign-agreement-support-operators (last viewed 9 January 2025).

( 32 ) For the purpose of this document, ‘CITIC Group Corporation’ refers to the ultimate mother company and ‘CITIC group’ refers to the group of companies under the umbrella of CITIC Group Corporation.

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( 35 ) Morocco, China to establish Silk Road business council. Available at https://eng.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/p/51195.html (last viewed 17 January 2025).

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( 38 ) Ibid.

( 39 ) China, Morocco sign joint implementation plan of BRI. Available at https://eng.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/p/212818.html (last viewed 6 February 2025).

( 40 ) Morocco and China sign Joint Belt and Road Implementation Plan. Available at https://diplomatie.ma/en/morocco-and-china-sign-joint-belt-and-road-implementation-plan (last viewed 5 February 2025).

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( 43 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/776 of 12 June 2020 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in the People's Republic of China and Egypt and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/492 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in the People's Republic of China and Egypt, OJ L 189, 15.6.2020, p. 1 .

( 44 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/870 of 24 June 2020 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of continuous filament glass fiber products originating in Egypt, and levying the definitive countervailing duty on the registered imports of continuous filament glass fiber products originating in Egypt, OJ L 201, 25.6.2020, p. 10 .

( 45 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/433 of 15 March 2022 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products originating in India and Indonesia and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2012 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products originating in India and Indonesia, OJ L 88, 16.3.2022, p. 24 .

( 46 ) Judgment of 28 November 2024, Hengshi Egypt Fiberglass Fabrics SAE and Jushi Egypt for Fiberglass Industry SAE , joined cases C-269/23P and C-272/23P, ECLI:EU:C:2024:984, paras. 74 – 110.

( 47 ) The General Court in T-480/20 came to the same conclusion: “The Government of China and the Government of Egypt therefore worked closely together to establish the SETC-Zone as a zone with special legal and economic features which enabled the government authorities of China to confer directly all the facilities inherent in China’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative on the Chinese undertakings established in that zone” (para. 91) (emphasis added).

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( 53 ) Judgment of 28 November 2024, Hengshi Egypt Fiberglass Fabrics SAE and Jushi Egypt for Fiberglass Industry SAE , joined cases C-269/23P and C-272/23P, ECLI:EU:C:2024:984, para. 84.

( 54 ) Document L/978, adopted 13 May 1959 (Annex A.4), paragraph 11.

( 55 ) See C-269/23P, paragraph 77.

( 56 ) See C-269/23P, paragraph 84.

( 57 ) 2018-2023 Audited reports of Changsha Dicastal submitted in response to deficiency letter No. 1 and collected as an exhibit during the on-spot verification; listings of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable submitted by Changsha Dicastal in response to deficiency letter No. 4.

( 58 ) Table E-2.2.1.c Loans provided in response to deficiency letter No.3 and revised during the on-spot verification, and a list of all loans received in the period of 2017 to 2022 provided in response to deficiency letter No. 4.

( 59 ) Ibid.

( 60 ) WT/DS379/AB/R ( US – Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties on Certain Products from China ), Appellate Body Report of 11 March 2011, DS 379, para. 318. See also WT/DS436/AB/R ( US — Carbon Steel (India) ), Appellate Body Report of 8 December 2014, para. 4.9 - 4.10, 4.17 - 4.20 and WT/DS437/AB/R ( US – Countervailing Duty Measures on Certain Products from China ) Appellate Body Report of 18 December 2014, para. 4.92.

( 61 ) WT/DS379/AB/R ( US – Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties on Certain Products from China ), Appellate Body Report of 11 March 2011, DS 379, para. 318.

( 62 ) WT/DS379/AB/R ( US – Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties on Certain Products from China ), Appellate Body Report of 11 March 2011, DS 379, para. 349.

( 63 ) CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd.’s acquisition of Dicastal (Asia) Investment Holding Co., Ltd. Available at https://scjgj.beijing.gov.cn/ztzl/jyzjzajgs/jyzjzjyajgs/202311/t20231103_3294853.html (last viewed 9 January 2025).

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( 68 ) Panel Report, US – Supercalendered Paper, para. 7.174 and 7.175.

( 69 ) Judgment of the Court of 14 December 2017, European Bicycle Manufacturers Association (EBMA) v Giant (China) Co. Ltd, Case C-61/16 P, para. 65.

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( 71 ) CITIC Group Corporation had more than 2 000 subsidiaries as of September 2024. Available at https://www.group.citic/uploadfile/2022/1121/子公司名单.pdf (last viewed 10 January 2025).

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( 97 ) Decree n° 1-14-195 24 December 2014 promulgating the finance law n° 100-14 for the fiscal year 2015.

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( 105 ) Exhibit 4a of the verification to the GOM.

( 106 ) Exhibit 43 of GOM deficiency letter reply.

( 107 ) See e,g, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1344 of 12 August 2019 imposing a provisional countervailing duty on imports of biodiesel originating in Indonesia ( OJ L 212, 13.8.2019, p. 1 ), recital (117).

( 108 ) International Financial Statistics. Country Notes, p. 113. Available at https://www.elibrary.imf.org/display/book/9781455217588/9781455217588.xml (last viewed 7 February 2025).

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( 110 ) See Articles 159(2), 173(1) and Appendix III to the Custom Code. According to Article 173 - 1° of the Customs Code “ Goods eligible for the drawback scheme instituted by article 159 of the aforementioned Customs Code are those listed in appendix III to the present decree ”.

( 111 ) Art 164.1 of the Custom Code.

( 112 ) Pursuant to ‘Loi n° 19-94 Relative aux Zones Franches d’Exportation’, Bulletin Officiel, 1995-02-15, no 4294, pp. 117-121, subsequently amended by law 14.21 to change the term ‘zone franche’ to ‘zone d’accélération industrielle’. See also ‘Code des douanes et impôts indirects relevant de l’administration des douanes et impôts indirects approuvé par le dahir portant loi n° 1-77-339 du 25 chaoual 1397 (9 octobre 1977), tel. qu’il a été modifié et complété’.

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( 116 ) WTO DS379/AB/R (US – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties on Certain Products from China), Appellate Body Report of 11 March 2011, para. 582.

( 117 ) COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/1221 of 14 July 2022 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain aluminium road wheels originating in Morocco. ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1221/oj ( OJ L 188/144, 15.07.2022 ).

( 118 ) Tron save number: t25:001776.

( 119 ) Tron save number: t25:001772.

( 120 ) Tron save number: t25:001778.

( 121 ) Tron save number: t25:001846.

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( 123 ) Tron save number: t25:001772.

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( 125 ) Tron save number: t25:001846.

( 126 ) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (OJ L Series, 26.9.2024 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj ).

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