CHINA SILICON

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has re-imposed 49 per cent definitive anti-dumping duties on cut priced exports into the EU of silicon from China. The move follows a European Commission review of the existing tariffs, (erected in 1997), which concluded that there was large "space capacity" in the Chinese silicon industry, leading to "the likelihood of continuation and recurrence of dumping and a recurrence of injury" to EU producers, "should the measures be repealed in respect of the country concerned." The investigation followed a ...


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