CHINA MAGNESIA BRICKS DUTIES ALLOWED TO LAPSE
June 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has let lapse anti-dumping duties against Chinese exports to the EU of magnesia bricks widely used in steelmaking. The move comes after Austria's RHI AG, the EU's biggest producer of the bricks said it no longer wanted the duties - which ranged as high as 39.9% and which were originally imposed in 2005. Their authorisation has now expired and they have been provisionally charged while the EU considered whether they should be reimposed permanently in an expiry review requested by a trade group the ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.