ECJ STEEL RULING PUSHES EU TOWARDS FREE TRADE APPROACH WITH ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES
February 1st, 2014
Since a European Union (EU) court scrapped anti-dumping duties on steel tubes from one of China's oldest steel companies, Hubei Xinyegang Steel last month, tongues have started wagging in Brussels over whether the EU will change how it handles anti-dumping cases. The European Commission is staying stum for now giving itself the legal period of three months to react and perhaps appeal. But the baldly critical ruling in the Hubei case highlighted “inconsistencies” in European Commission antidumping calculations, which have been used to erect duties against a ...
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