EUROPE’S ALUMINIUM SECTOR COULD BE KILLED OFF BY WEAKENING EU ANTI-DUMPING SYSTEM – CONFERENCE TOLD
February 1st, 2016
A major European trade union executive has warned a European Commission conference that Europe’s aluminium and steel industries could disappear if the European Union (EU) gives China ‘market economy status’ (MES) within its anti-dumping calculations.
Bart Samyn, deputy secretary general of industriALL, gave a stark warning claiming that “if the EU grants MES to countries such as China, this could kill a number of industries we have here in Europe”. If that happens, he told a High Level Conference on Energy Intensive Industries, held in Brussels ...
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