EU FRAMES SILICON CARBIDE DUTIES FOR CHINA, ABANDONS TARIFFS FOR RUSSIA, UKRAINE
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed re-imposing 52.6% anti-dumping duties on exports into the European Union (EU) of silicon carbide from China, while suggesting they are lifted for Russia and the Ukraine. Following a review into duties in place - at least formally - since 1986 - Brussels concluded for China, exporters were continuing to dump the processed mineral, and that "there is no reason to believe that this behaviour would change." Indeed, the Commission referred to figures from EU chemical industry federation CEFIC that ...
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