EUROPEAN COMMISSION PUSHES FOR RENEWAL OF PET ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to reimpose definitive antidumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. The original duties were imposed in 2000 and were to lapse, but the Polyethylene Terephthalate Committee of Plastics Europe called for their reimposition, claiming the "expiry of the measures would... result in a continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury to the EU industry."Following an inquiry, the ...
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