BRUSSELS PROPOSES RESUMPTION OF CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA SILICON ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES
May 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to restore for five years - albeit at a lower level of 19% - anti-dumping duties on silicon exported to the EU from China and South Korea because of concerns removing the tariffs would allow unfair undercutting of EU producers.
The European Commission has concluded after reviewing the existing 49% duties, which were about to expire (having been most recently approved in 2004), that without any anti-dumping protection, the price of Chinese silicon exports would undercut EU-produced silicon by ...
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