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, 15 January 2025

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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

( 2 ) OJ C, C/2024/3186, 16.5.2024 .

( 3 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2733 of 24 October 2024 making imports of multilayered wood flooring originating in the People’s Republic of China subject to registration. OJ L, 2024/2733, 25.10.2024 .

( 4 ) https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/investigations/case-view?caseId=2728 .

( 5 ) During the investigation period the company was acting as Jilin Forest Industry Jinqiao Flooring Group Co., Ltd., Songjianghe Branch, Songjianghe, Jilin Province, PRC, however after the investigation period the company has been restructured and the branch activities have been transferred to the newly established company – Jilin Forest Industry New Jinqiao Songlin Flooring Co.,Ltd. Songjianghe, Jilin Province, PRC.

( 6 ) 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.

( 7 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1159 of 13 June 2023 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of okoumé plywood originating in the People’s Republic of China following an expiry review, OJ L 153, 14.6.2023, p. 3 , rec. 83; http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1159/oj .

( 8 ) Articles of Association of the China Forest Products Industry Association, adopted on 21 April 2009, see at: http://www.cnfpia.org/about-law.html (accessed on 25 October 2024).

( 9 ) See at: http://www.jlsgjt.com/english/index.htm (accessed on 25 October 2024).

( 10 ) Report, Chapter 2, p. 26.

( 11 ) See at: https://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/yuhuatimber/ (accessed on 25 October 2024).

( 12 ) The Commission reached a similar conclusion in the okoumé plywood case, see Regulation 2023/1159, rec. 59.

( 13 ) Report, Chapter 7, pp. 167-168.

( 14 ) Report, Chapter 8, pp. 169-170, 200-201.

( 15 ) See Regulation 2023/1159, rec. 61.

( 16 ) ‘ NFGA ’.

( 17 ) See at: https://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2019-02/19/content_5366730.htm (accessed on 25 October 2024).

( 18 ) See Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/492 of 1 April 2020 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, rec. 139-141; http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/492/oj .

( 19 ) See Regulation 2023/1159, rec. 64.

( 20 ) Food and Agriculture Organization, Country Report, “China”, 2020, see at: https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/8612fc97-9e62-460c-b57e-fdb7f6749772/content (accessed on 18 November 2024).

( 21 ) See Regulation 2020/492, rec. 143.

( 22 ) See Regulation 2020/492, rec. 143; Report, pp. 337-341; Regulation 2023/1159, rec. 67.

( 23 ) Report, Chapter 6, pp. 120-135.

( 24 ) Report, Chapter 6, p. 119.

( 25 ) Report, Chapter 5, pp. 121-122, 126-128 and 133-135.

( 26 ) See Regulation 2023/1159, rec. 74.

( 27 ) Report, Chapter 2, p. 7.

( 28 ) Report, Chapter 2, p. 7-8.

( 29 ) Report, Chapter 2, pp. 10, 18.

( 30 ) See at: http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Constitution/node_2825.html (accessed on 21 October 2024).

( 31 ) Report, Chapter 2, pp. 29-30.

( 32 ) Report, Chapter 4, pp. 57, 92.

( 33 ) Report, Chapter 6, pp. 149-150.

( 34 ) Report, Chapter 6, pp. 153 -171.

( 35 ) Report, Chapter 7, pp. 204-205.

( 36 ) Report, Chapter 8, pp. 207-208, 242-243.

( 37 ) Report, Chapter 2, p. 19-24, Chapter 4, p. 69, pp. 99-100, Chapter 5, pp. 130-131.

( 38 ) See at: https://www.nature-cn.cn/about.html (accessed on 7 November 2024).

( 39 ) See at: http://www.powerdekor-woodfloor.com/?c=12 (accessed on 7 November 2024).

( 40 ) See at: https://www.der.com.cn/index.php/about.html (accessed on 7 November 2024).

( 41 ) See at: http://cn.jinqiaoflooringgroup.com/ (accessed on 7 November 2024).

( 42 ) See Art. 33 of the CCP Constitution, Article 19 of the Chinese Company Law. See also Report, Chapter 3, pp. 47-50.

( 43 ) See Sec. I.1.39, p. 4, available at: https://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2019-11/06/5449193/files/26c9d25f713f4ed5b8dc51ae40ef37af.pdf , (accessed on 7 November 2024).

( 44 ) See Sec. I.1.7, p. 11, available at:

https://www.ndrc.gov.cn/xxgk/zcfb/fzggwl/202312/P020231229700886191069.pdf , (accessed on 7 November 2024).

( 45 ) See Sec. III.2, p. 4, available at: http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/2022-02/13/content_5673332.htm , (accessed on 7 November 2024).

( 46 ) Report, Chapter 2, pp. 24-27.

( 47 ) See at: http://www.cnfpia.org/about-law.html (accessed on 7 November 2024).

( 48 ) See at: http://www.lcjzwl.com/dongtaifabu1/3248.html (accessed on 8 November 2024).

( 49 ) See at: https://www.cnwood.org.cn/article/11_1102_0_0.html (accessed on 8 November 2024).

( 50 ) See at: https://www.cnwood.org.cn/article/11_1101_0_0.html (accessed on 8 November 2024).

( 51 ) See at: https://www.cnwood.org.cn/article/11_1151_0_0.html (accessed on 8 November 2024).

( 52 ) Report, Chapter 3, p. 40.

( 53 ) 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.

( 54 ) Report, Chapter 3, p. 41.

( 55 ) See at: https://merics.org/en/comment/who-ccp-chinas-communist-party-infographics (accessed on 18 October 2024).

( 56 ) General Office of CCP Central Committee’s Guidelines on stepping up the United Front work in the private sector for the new era, see at: www.gov.cn/zhengce/2020-09/15/content_5543685.htm (accessed on 21 October 2024).

( 57 ) Financial Times (2020) - Chinese Communist Party asserts greater control over private enterprise, see at: https://on.ft.com/3mYxP4j (accessed on 21 October 2024).

( 58 ) See at: http://static.cninfo.com.cn/finalpage/2024-04-20/1219691321.PDF , p. 45 (accessed on 8 November 2024).

( 59 ) See at: http://www.menchuang.net/news/131307.html (accessed on 8 November 2024).

( 60 ) See Power Dekor Sustainable Development Report 2023, p. 23, available at: https://powerdekor.com.cn/93/ (accessed on 8 November 2024).

( 61 ) Report, Chapter 12.

( 62 ) Report, Chapter 4, pp. 56-57, 99-100.

( 63 ) See Sec. XI.1 and XV.3 of the plan; available at: https://www.ndrc.gov.cn/fggz/fzzlgh/dffzgh/202106/t20210617_1283435.html (accessed on 11 November 2024).

( 64 ) See at: https://shyang.investchn.com/news/detail/id/512215.html (accessed on 11 November 2024).

( 65 ) See at: https://www.sohu.com/a/423747078_120186115 (accessed on 12 November 2024).

( 66 ) Report, Chapter 6, pp. 171-179.

( 67 ) Report, Chapter 9, pp. 260-261.

( 68 ) Report, Chapter 9, pp. 257-260.

( 69 ) Report, Chapter 9, pp. 252-254.

( 70 ) Report, Chapter 13, pp. 360-361, 364-370.

( 71 ) Report, Chapter 13, p. 366.

( 72 ) Report, Chapter 13, pp. 370-373.

( 73 ) Report, Chapter 6, pp. 137-140.

( 74 ) Report, Chapter 6, pp. 146-149.

( 75 ) Report, Chapter 6, p. 149.

( 76 ) See the Three-year action plan for improving corporate governance of the banking and insurance sectors (2020-2022 ) issued by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (‘ CBIRC ’) on 28 August 2020; available at: http://www.cbirc.gov.cn/cn/view/pages/ItemDetail.html?docId=925393&itemId=928 (accessed on 21 October 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: ‘w e 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 ’.

( 77 ) See the Notice on the Commercial banks performance evaluation method issued by the CBIRC on 15 December 2020, available at: http://jrs.mof.gov.cn/gongzuotongzhi/202101/t20210104_3638904.htm (accessed on 21 October 2024).

( 78 ) Report, Chapter 6, pp. 157-158.

( 79 ) Report, Chapter 6, pp. 150-152, 156-160, 165-171.

( 80 ) OECD (2019), OECD Economic Surveys: China 2019, OECD Publishing, Paris, p. 29, see at: https://doi.org/10.1787/eco_surveys-chn-2019-en (accessed on 21 October 2024).

( 81 ) See at: http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-04/20/content_5504241.htm (accessed on 21 October 2024).

( 82 ) Judgement of 11 July 2017, Viraj Profiles v Council, T-67/14, EU:T:2017:481, para. 98.

( 83 ) World Bank Open Data – Upper Middle Income, https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/upper-middle-income .

( 84 ) https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/capabilities/company-reference-data/orbis.html .

( 85 ) https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/turkiye-report-2023_en .

( 86 ) As of November 2024, for Türkiye, Orbis database reports 136 companies active in the manufacture of assembled parquet floors (NACE code 1622). Even considering that only a fraction of this number corresponds to producers of the product under investigation, it would be still much higher than any plausible number of producers in Malaysia. Moreover, the Turkish Statistical Institute reports that in 2023 the production of assembled parquet floors (NACE code 1622 – including mosaic floors) has reached 114 198 274 m 2 . The Commission was not able to find any comparable production statistics for Malaysia.

( 87 ) Based on GTA for HS Code 441875.

( 88 ) 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 ). Article 2(7) of the basic Regulation considers that domestic prices in those countries cannot be used for the purpose of determining normal value.

( 89 ) http://www.turkstat.gov.tr => Press releases => select Labour Cost Statistics.

( 90 ) http://www.turkstat.gov.tr => Press releases => select Labour Cost index.

( 91 ) EMRA | Energy Market Regulatory Authority (epdk.gov.tr)=> Press releases => select Electricity electricity market board decisions.

( 92 ) http://www.turkstat.gov.tr => Press releases => select Producer Price Index.

( 93 ) https://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/tech_assistance/pdfs/steam15_benchmark.pdf . The methodology refers to the cost of saturated steam for typical values of operating pressure and feedwater temperature. In the application of the methodology, an average of these typical values was used.

( 94 ) https://www.invest.gov.tr/en/investmentguide/pages/cost-of-doing-business.aspx .

( 95 ) FEP complaint Annex 4.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/78 of 15 January 2025 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of multilayered wood flooring originating in the People’s Republic of China ANNEX