PIPE DUTY REVIEW
January 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has abandoned a review of European Union (EU) anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of threaded malleable cast-iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, after affected exporters failed to assist Brussels its investigators. The review was sparked by complaints that the duties' imposition had broken global trade rules because the Commission's procedures had mirrored those earlier criticised by the World Trade Organisation in a textiles dispute between the EU and ...
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