ECJ REJECTS GERMAN COMPANY CLAIM OVER SILICON METAL PROCESSING
February 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL clarity on the amount of processing that an imported metal must receive, to become a new product for the purposes or re-exporting has emerged from a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case regarding Chinese silicon metal.
Germany's Hoesch Metals and Alloys GmbH was challenging a decision by the Aachem customs office over whether silicon metal it was importing from India should have been regarded 'made in India', where it has been separated, crushed, purified, sieved, sorted and packaged. The customs officials regarded it as coming from China, ...
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