Nekatere zainteresirane stranke so trdile, da je bila ocena vzročne zveze napačna, ker bi bilo treba poslabšanje nekaterih škodnih dejavnikov, npr. dobičkonosnost, denarni tok, donosnost naložb in možnost povišanja povezati z neodvisnim cikličnim razvojem in z obsežnimi naložbami industrije Skupnosti v referenčnem obdobju, ne pa toliko z vplivom zadevnega uvoza.
Some interested parties claimed that the assessment of the causal link was flawed since the deterioration of certain injury factors, i.e. profitability, cash flow, return on investments and ability to raise capital, should be considered as being linked to autonomous cyclical developments and to the massive investments made by the Community industry during the period considered rather than to the impact of the imports concerned.