Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep Antwerpen (Belgium) lodged on 24 November 2022 — Openbaar Ministerie, Federale Overheidsdienst Financiën v Profit Europe NV, Gosselin Forwarding Services NV

(Case C-719/22, Openbaar Ministerie and Federale Overheidsdienst Financiën)

(2023/C 189/07)

Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

Hof van beroep te Antwerpen

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: Openbaar Ministerie, Federale Overheidsdienst Financiën

Defendants: Profit Europe NV, Gosselin Forwarding Services NV

Question referred

Do Regulation (EU) No 1071/2012 (1) and Regulation (EU) No 430/2013 (2) violate Articles 1, 5, 6 and 9 of Basic Regulation 1225/2009, (3) in so far as they subject imports of threaded tube or pipe cast fittings, of spheroidal graphite cast iron, originating in the People’s Republic of China to anti-dumping duties upon import, when neither the complaint for the initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding nor the notice of initiation of the anti-dumping measure identified such goods as the product concerned, no evidence of dumping, injury and a causal link was produced and the European Commission did not in any way investigate their normal value, export price, possible margin of dumping, possible injury, the extent of the injury, the impact of other known factors on the injury, the causal link between dumping and injury and the need to subject those goods (threaded tube or pipe cast fittings) to anti-dumping duties in the interest of the Union?

(1)  Commission Regulation (EU) No 1071/2012 of 14 November 2012 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of threaded tube or pipe cast fittings, of malleable cast iron, originating in the People's Republic of China and Thailand (OJ 2012 L 318, p. 10).

(2)  Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 430/2013 of 13 May 2013 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of threaded tube or pipe cast fittings, of malleable cast iron, originating in the People’s Republic of China and Thailand and terminating the proceeding with regard to Indonesia (OJ 2013 L 129, p. 1).

(3)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 of 30 November 2009 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (OJ 2009 L 343, p. 51).