PAINT INGREDIENT ANTIDUMPING DUTY PLANS SCRAPPED
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed attempts by European Union (EU) producers of a key coatings ingredient to secure anti-dumping duties on imports of pentaerythritol into the EU from China, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the USA. CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) had claimed illegally cut-priced exports of this common polyol (which produces alkyd resins underpinning many coatings) from these countries had been damaging the economic health of EU producers. However, the Commission could not link these exports to poor profits amongst EU ...
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