EU COUNCIL EXPANDS CHINA SILICON DUTY TO ILLICIT SOUTH KOREA EXPORTS
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved extending 49% antidumping duties on Chinese exports into the EU of silicon to deliveries from South Korea, to head off rules of origin fraud. The action follows a European Commission inquiry that concluded Chinese exports were being routed illicitly via South Korea to avoid antidumping duties first imposed in 1995. Indeed, Brussels concluded: "During this investigation no genuine producer/exporter of silicon to the EU was found to exist in [South] Korea". Despite this, 4,380 tonnes of ...
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