135The applicants do not contest the fact that Türkiye has a similar level of development as China. Their arguments, which are based on an argument of economies of scale, namely that China has a greater population than Türkiye and that the domestic demand is different, cannot invalidate the Commission’s findings. First, it does not follow from any provision of the basic regulation that the Commission is required to take the population of countries into consideration when choosing the representative country. Second, since China is the country with the largest population in the world, it would be unreasonable to require the Commission to use a country with an equivalent population as the representative country. For the same reason, nor can the applicants’ argument regarding domestic demand and economies of scale be accepted.
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