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declare the action for annulment admissible;

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annul Article 1, paragraphs 1, 3 and 4, of the European Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1267 of 6 May 2024 extending the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2012 on imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products originating in Indonesia to imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products consigned from Taiwan and Vietnam, whether declared as originating in Taiwan and Vietnam or not, and terminating the investigation concerning the possible circumvention of anti-dumping measures imposed by that Regulation by imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products consigned from Türkiye, whether declared as originating in Türkiye or not, (1) insofar as it concerns the exempted exporting producers : (i) Yieh United Steel Corporation, (ii) Tang Eng Iron Works Co., Ltd. (YUSCO group), (iii) Chia Far Industrial Factory Co., Ltd., (iv) Yuan Long Stainless Steel Corp (v) Tung Mung Development Co., Ltd., (vi) Walsin Lihwa Corporation, (vii) Posco VST and (viii) Lam Khang; the remainder of the regulation remains valid and in force;

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order the European Commission to bear the costs of the proceedings.

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First plea in law, alleging that the Commission committed an error of law in its application of a ‘producer-based’, rather than a ‘product-based’ approach to the thresholds set out in the assembly operation test.

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Second plea in law, alleging that the contested regulation is vitiated insofar as it exempts the six cooperating Taiwanese producers because the Commission committed a manifest error of assessment and of law through its restrictive interpretation of the temporal requirement in the assembly operation test, its misapplication of the facts which can only entail that its finding of circumvention at country-level must also be applied to the cooperating producers and the failure to address the substantial increase of exports to the EU between 2020 and 2021.

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Third plea in law, alleging that the Commission’s statement of reasons regarding the absence of evidence of dumping is defective.