THAILAND DUTIES
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA THAILAND steel company has escaped from having to pay 58.9% anti-dumping duties on exports to the European Union (EU) of certain iron or steel tube or pipe-fittings. Benkan Co. Ltd, of Prapadaeng-Samutprakarn, has been exempted from the duties since 2000, which were renewed for other Thai producers in 2003. But this exemption has been opposed by the EU Defence Committee of the Steel Butt-Welding Fittings Industry, which has claimed that Benkan was actually dumping tubes and pipe-fittings on the European market. This led to a European Commission ...
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