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, 9 October 2019.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude JUNCKER

( 1 ) OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 21 .

( 2 ) Notice of initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of steel road wheels originating in the People’s Republic of China ( OJ C 60, 15.2.2019 . p. 19).

( 3 ) Notice amending the notice of initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of steel road wheels originating in the People’s Republic of China ( OJ C 111, 25.3.2019, p. 52 ).

( 4 ) See section 3.1 of the Regulation.

( 5 ) Available at http://trade.ec.europa.eu/tdi/case_details.cfm?id=2383 (last viewed 15 July 2019).

( 6 ) No t19.001009.

( 7 ) No t19.001778.

( 8 ) 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 (hereafter ‘Report’).

( 9 ) See p. 15 and Annex 14 of the complaint.

( 10 ) Overcapacity in China – an impediment to the Party’s reform agenda, European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, p. 19 (Annex 14 of the complaint).

( 11 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/969 of 8 June 2017 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/649 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China ( OJ L 146, 9.6.2017, p.17 ), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/687 of 2 May 2019 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain organic coated steel products originating in the People’s Republic of China following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( OJ L 116, 3.5.2019, p. 5 ), and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/688 of 2 May 2019 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of certain organic coated steel products originating in the People’s Republic of China following an expiry review pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1037 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( OJ L 116, 3.5.2019, p. 39 ).

( 12 ) Report – Chapter 2, p. 6-7.

( 13 ) Report – Chapter 2, p. 10.

( 14 ) Available at http://www.fdi.gov.cn/1800000121_39_4866_0_7.html (last viewed 15 July 2019).

( 15 ) Report – Chapter 2, p. 20-21.

( 16 ) Report – Chapter 3, p. 41, 73-74.

( 17 ) Report – Chapter 6, p. 120-121.

( 18 ) Report – Chapter 6, p. 122-135.

( 19 ) Report – Chapter 7, p. 167-168.

( 20 ) Report – Chapter 8, p. 169-170, 200-201.

( 21 ) Report – Chapter 2, p. 15-16, Report – Chapter 4, p. 50, p. 84, Report – Chapter 5, p. 108-9.

( 22 ) Report – Chapter 3, p. 22-24 and Chapter 5, p. 97-108.

( 23 ) Report – Chapter 5, p. 104-9.

( 24 ) Report – Chapter 14, p. 358: 51 % private and 49 % SOEs in terms of production and 44 % SOEs and 56 % private companies in terms of capacity.

( 25 ) Available at www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/2016-02/04/content_5039353.htm (last viewed 12 September 2019), https://policycn.com/policy_ticker/higher-expectations-for-large-scale-steel-enterprise/?iframe=1&secret=c8uthafuthefra4e

(last viewed 15 July 2019), and www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/23/c_138001574.htm (last viewed 11 September 2019).

( 26 ) Available at http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/23/c_138001574.htm (last viewed 12 September 2019) and http://www.jjckb.cn/2019-04/23/c_137999653.htm (last viewed 12 September 2019).

( 27 ) As was the case of the merger between the private company Rizhao and the SOE Shandong Iron and Steel in 2009. See Beijing steel report, p. 58, and the acquired majority stake of China Baowu Steel Group in Magang Steel in June 2019, see https://www.ft.com/content/a7c93fae-85bc-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2 (last viewed 11 September 2019).

( 28 ) OJ L 116, 3.5.2019, p.39 .

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

( 30 ) PwC Automotive Industry Bluebook (2017 Edition) China Automotive Market: Witnessing the Transformation, p.36, available at https://www.pwccn.com/en/automotive/pwc-auto-industry-blue-book.pdf (last viewed 21 August 2019); J.D. Power China Market Insight – China’s Five Year Plan, available at https://www.jdpower.com/sites/default/files/china_five_year_plan.pdf (last viewed 21 August 2019).

( 31 ) Report – Chapter 5, p. 100-1.

( 32 ) Report – Chapter 2, p. 26.

( 33 ) Report – Chapter 2, p. 31-2.

( 34 ) Available at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-congress-companies-idUSKCN1B40JU (last viewed 15 July 2019).

( 35 ) The full text of the plan is available on the MIIT website: http://www.miit.gov.cn/n1146295/n1652858/n1652930/n3757016/c5353943/content.html (last viewed 16 July 2019)

( 36 ) Available at http://tv.baosteel.com/ir/pdf/report/600019_2016_2e.pdf (last viewed 15 July 2019).

( 37 ) See Recital (64) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/969 of 8 June 2017 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/649 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China ( OJ L 146, 9.6.2017, p. 17 ).

( 38 ) SAIC Motor Annual Report 2018, p.24, available at https://www.saicmotor.com/english/images/investor_relations/annual_report/2019/7/10/FCA72DB2F082468293A9E76A81E5DFE2.pdf (last viewed 21 August 2019).

( 39 ) Report – Chapters 14.1 to 14.3.

( 40 ) Report – Chapter 4, p. 41-42 and 83.

( 41 ) Report, Part III, Chapter 14, p. 346 ff.

( 42 ) Introduction to the Plan for Adjusting and Upgrading the Steel Industry.

( 43 ) Report, Chapter 14, p. 347.

( 44 ) The 13th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China (2016-2020), available at http://en.ndrc.gov.cn/newsrelease/201612/P020161207645765233498.pdf (last viewed 15 July 2019).

( 45 ) Report – Chapter 14, p. 349.

( 46 ) Report – Chapter 14, p. 352.

( 47 ) Catalogue for Guiding Industry Restructuring (2011 Version) (2013 Amendment) issued by Order No 9 of the National Development and Reform Commission on 27 March 2011, and amended in accordance with the Decision of the National Development and Reform Commission on Amending the Relevant Clauses of the Catalogue for Guiding Industry Restructuring (2011 Version) issued by Order No 21 of the National Development and Reform Commission on 16 February 2013.

( 48 ) See Recital (56) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/969 of 8 June 2017 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/649 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China ( OJ L 146, 9.6.2017, p.17 ).

( 49 ) Report – Chapter 14, pp. 375 – 376.

( 50 ) Report – Chapter 6, p. 138-149.

( 51 ) Report – Chapter 9, p. 216.

( 52 ) Report – Chapter 9, p. 213-215.

( 53 ) Report – Chapter 9, p. 209-211.

( 54 ) See recitals 281-311 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/969 of 8 June 2017 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/649 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China ( OJ L 146, 9.6.2017, p. 17 ).

( 55 ) Report – Chapter 13, p. 332-337.

( 56 ) Report – Chapter 13, p. 336.

( 57 ) Report – Chapter 13, p. 337-341.

( 58 ) Report – Chapter 6, p. 114-117.

( 59 ) Report – Chapter 6, p. 119.

( 60 ) Report – Chapter 6, p. 120.

( 61 ) Report – Chapter 6, p. 121-122, 126-128, 133-135.

( 62 ) See IMF Working Paper ‘Resolving China’s Corporate Debt Problem’, by Wojciech Maliszewski, Serkan Arslanalp, John Caparusso, José Garrido, Si Guo, Joong Shik Kang, W. Raphael Lam, T. Daniel Law, Wei Liao, Nadia Rendak, Philippe Wingender, Jiangyan, October 2016, WP/16/203.

( 63 ) Report – Chapter 6, p. 121-122, 126-128, 133-135.

( 64 ) See recitals (83)-(244) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/969 of 8 June 2017 imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/649 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in the People’s Republic of China ( OJ L 146, 9.6.2017, p. 17 ).

( 65 ) World Bank Open Data – Upper Middle Income, available at https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/upper-middle-income (last viewed 15 July 2019).

( 66 ) If there is no production of the product under review in any country with a similar level of development, production of a product in the same general category and/or sector of the product under review may be considered.

( 67 ) Available at

https://qdd.oecd.org/subject.aspx?Subject=ExportRestrictions_IndustrialRawMaterials (last viewed 3 July 2019).

( 68 ) Available at http://portal.siscomex.gov.br/legislacao/legislacao/mais-legislacoes/mcti (last viewed 3 July 2019).

( 69 ) For example see https://www.jornalcontabil.com.br/quanto-custa-um-funcionario-aprenda-a-calcular/ or https://establishbrazil.com/articles/whats-real-cost-employee (last viewed 3 July 2019).

( 70 ) Available at

https://www.iochpe.com.br/Download.aspx?Arquivo=Es93IRz+hvwnExFo7bRkrA== (last viewed 4 July 2019).

( 71 ) Brazilian imports are reported at FOB level in GTA.

( 72 ) Brazilian exports are reported at FOB level in GTA.

( 73 ) Available at http://www.meps.co.uk/L.AmerPrice.htm (last viewed 29 August 2019); the product is described as follows: Sections and Beams — 240mm x 240mm H-Beam — except USA and Canada: 10 inches x 10 inches wide flange beam and China: 300mm x 300mm H-beam (available at http://www.meps.co.uk/definitions.htm (last viewed 29 August 2019)).

( 74 ) Available at https://www.ilo.org/ilostat/faces/oracle/webcenter/portalapp/pagehierarchy/Page21.jspx?_afrLoop=518377340582818&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=o8k2wnnrz_1#!%40%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Do8k2wnnrz_1%26_afrLoop%3D518377340582818%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3Do8k2wnnrz_54 (last viewed 4 July 2019).

( 75 ) Available at https://establishbrazil.com/articles/whats-real-cost-employee (last viewed 4 July 2019).

( 76 ) Available at http://www.edp.com.br/distribuicao-es/saiba-mais/informativos/tarifas-aplicadas-a-clientes-atendidos-em-alta-e-media-tensao-(grupo-a) (last viewed 10 April 2019).

( 77 ) Available at http://www.aneel.gov.br/a-aneel (last viewed 10 April 2019).

( 78 ) Available at http://www.aneel.gov.br/bandeiras-tarifarias (last viewed 10 April 2019).

( 79 ) Available at http://www.edp.com.br/distribuicao-es/saiba-mais/informativos/bandeira-tarifaria (last viewed 10 April 2019).

( 80 ) Boletim mensal de acompanhamento da indústria de gás natural, available at http://www.mme.gov.br/documents/1138769/0/Boletim_Gas_Natural_nr_142_DEZ_18.pdf/49912e53-03ee-47cc-a45e-7ffa093ff777 (last viewed 16 July 2019).

( 81 ) Available at http://site.sabesp.com.br/site/interna/Default.aspx?secaoId=183 (last viewed 10 April 2019).

( 82 ) For example the Metropolitan area http://site.sabesp.com.br/site/uploads/file/asabesp_doctos/comunicado_06_2018.pdf (last viewed 10 April 2019).

( 83 ) See Note of 16 April 2019 (No t19.001778).

( 84 ) As mentioned in recital (179), the exporting producer in question exported to the Union directly to independent customers. Thus, the export price used for the undercutting calculations was the price actually paid or payable for the product concerned when sold for export to the Union, in accordance with Article 2(8) of the basic Regulation.

( 85 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 404/2010 of 10 May 2010 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain aluminium wheels originating in the People’s Republic of China ( OJ L 117, 11.5.2010, p. 76 ), recital (133).

( 86 ) Details of the calculation are in the limited version of the mission report concerning Company H.

( 87 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/109 of 23 January 2017 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain aluminium road wheels originating in the People’s Republic of China following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( OJ L 18, 24.1.2017, p. 1 ), recitals (250) to (268).

( 88 ) European Commission, Directorate-General for Trade, Directorate H, Rue de la Loi 170, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

( 89 ) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1 .

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/1693 of 9 October 2019 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of steel road wheels originating in the People’s Republic of China ANNEX I