ECJ JUDGES CRITICISE EU WHEN ANNULLING ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES ON CHINESE STEELMAKER
February 1st, 2014
The European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) junior General Court has scrapped definitive anti-dumping duties imposed by the European Union (EU) on China’s Hubei Xinyegang Steel Co Ltd, finding the EU broke its own rules on imposing such tariffs. In an unusually critical ruling, judges told the EU Council of Ministers to pay Hubei’s case costs and its own.The 39.2% duties in question were imposed in 2009 and the EU will now almost certainly have to pay them back, certainly to Hubei and maybe other companies later, (along with related provisional duties), ...
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