The EU is putting its final touches to a change to its antidumping law that would alter its standard damage calculation methodology, and give the Commission more responsibility in monitoring sensitive markets by drafting relevant industry and country reports. The member states have now agreed on their common position. As …
Disputes & TDI
Council agrees on new TDI methodology
Member states have agreed on a new methodology to calculate antidumping duties after almost six months of internal negotiations. The suggested methodology will apply to all trade defence cases in future once adopted. The change to the EU’s basic antidumping regulation follows on plans to do away with a specific methodology – the …
New EU antidumping methodology: MEPs weigh in
The European Parliament has circulated its first report version on EU plans to overhaul its trade defence methodology in response to China no longer being considered a ‘non market economy’. The proposals tabled by the parliament’s rapporteur Salvatore Cicu (EPP) partly converge with the latest version of the Council’s own latest plans, …
New antidumping method: EU to make room for local price data
Member states are edging closer to a compromise on a new methodology to calculate dumping following China’s expected falling off the EU’s non market economy list, and amidst pressure from Beijing in the World Trade Organization. The Maltese rotating EU presidency tabled a new text on Friday (7 April …
EU gears up China trade defence fight with increased duties on iron, steel
On Thursday (6 April 2017), the EU slapped definitive antidumping duties ‘hot-rolled’ iron products and on steel imported from China. The move comes only a few days after the WTO established a dispute settlement panel following a Chinese complaint in which Beijing accuses the EU of illegally continuing to apply its …
Indonesia revives EU biodiesel antidumping disputes with new WTO complaint
If you believed the fate of the EU’s biodiesel antidumping duties was sealed after the WTO appellate body’s ruling on a case brought by Argentina and a European Court of Justice ruling annulling these measures in the autumn 2016, stand corrected. The saga goes on. This week, Indonesia filed a complaint in …
WTO panel backs China in chicken quota dispute with the EU
The WTO’s dispute settlement panel has broadly endorsed a claim brought against the EU by China regarding a tariff rate quota extension for chicken. In 2012, the EU extended its WTO quotas to Thailand and Brazil, two major exporters of poultry. China, whose exports to the EU had increased significantly …
WTO appellate report strengthens EU case in pork ban dispute with Russia
Russia is probably regretting having appealed the first WTO dispute panel finding against one of its most politically charged trade tussle with the EU. In September 2016, the dispute settlement body in Geneva ruled that Russia’s import ban on pork products from Baltic states introduced in 2014 and extended …
In brief: Russia appeals WTO ruling on commercial vehicle duties
Russia has appealed against a January 2017 WTO dispute settlement ruling indicting it for not following the rulebook in applying trade defence duties against German and Italian commercial vehicles. The WTO’s main disagreement was the fact that Russia only took into account the damage to one company – Sollers – in …
Updated: Commission to decide alone on solar panel duty compromise
The EU Commission is set to act alone in a disputed solar panel antidumping case after appeals committee puts case in limbo. EU member states comprising 48 percent of the EU’s population agreed on Friday (17 February 2017) to the Commission’s revised proposal on the extension of solar panel …
