the minimum prices shall not include customs duties

Moreover, the exporting producer claimed that the price levels of aluminium in the Union are higher due to customs duties in force on unwrought aluminium, between 3 % and 6 %, which would increase the intra-EU premium for metal, which is part of the metal price and thus part of the aluminium price.

For the purposes of price undercutting, the weighted average sales prices of the sampled Union producers to unrelated customers on the Union market, adjusted to an ex-works level, i.e. excluding freight costs in the Union and after deduction of discounts and rebates, were compared to the corresponding weighted average prices of ...[+++]the cooperating exporters from the PRC to the first independent customer on the Union market, i.e. net of discounts and adjusted where necessary to CIF Union frontier price and also duly adjusted for existing customs duties, customs clearance costs and post-importation costs. Prices of lower-grades products were adjusted to A-grade level prices as lower grade products were, from a consumer perspective, found to be competing with A-grade products as also concluded in recital 61 above.

21. Backs the introduction of repositories for all derivatives positions, ideally distinguished by asset class and regulated and supervised under ESMA direction; calls for binding procedural rules to be established to prevent distortions of competition and to ensure equal interpretation in the Member States and, furthermore, for ESMA to have supreme decision-making authority in disputes; calls for the Commission to ensure that national supervisory authorities have real-time access to granular data in repositories that relate to market participants based within their jurisdiction and to data that relate to potential systemic risk that might be built up in their jurisdiction, as well as access to aggregate data from all repositories includi ...[+++]ng those held in repositories based in third countries; notes that the service provided by repositories should be priced transparently in light of their utility-like function;

21. Backs the introduction of repositories for all derivatives positions, ideally distinguished by asset class and regulated and supervised under ESMA direction; calls for binding procedural rules to be established to prevent distortions of competition and to ensure equal interpretation in the Member States and, furthermore, for ESMA to have supreme decision-making authority in disputes; calls for the Commission to ensure that national supervisory authorities have real-time access to granular data in repositories that relate to market participants based within their jurisdiction and to data that relate to potential systemic risk that might be built up in their jurisdiction, as well as access to aggregate data from all repositories includi ...[+++]ng those held in repositories based in third countries; notes that the service provided by repositories should be priced transparently in light of their utility-like function;