ANTI-DUMPING – BRAZIL
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has corrected its anti-dumping duty on malleable cast iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil, reducing the rate from 34.8 to 32 per cent. The move by the EU Council of Ministers follows a ruling last year by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that the European Commission had erred when calculating the original duty (erected in 2000). It found, for example, that Brussels should have disclosed information about economic problems being suffered by EU producers during an investigation leading to the duties' imposition and also ...
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