COSMETICS INDUSTRY EYES WTO RULING ON INDONESIA’S APPEAL AGAINST EU FATTY ALCOHOL DUTIES
April 1st, 2017
EUROPEAN Union (EU) cosmetics and soaps companies are awaiting with interest the results of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)’s appellate body’s decision on Indonesia’s claim that the EU’s anti-dumping duties have been unfairly placed on imported fatty alcohols from the south-east Asian economic giant.
Fatty alcohol is made from kernel oil and is used to make cosmetics, detergents and surfactants. Responding to complaints from European manufacturers of this ingredient, the EU imposed the duties on the imports and their blends originating in Indonesia ...
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