Brussels, 24/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 21 June, the European Commission published statistics covering the first five months of the year as regards trade defence (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard activities) which will feature in the 2013 annual report to be presented to the European Parliament in the course of the year. On 31 May 2013, 85 anti-dumping measures and 10 countervailing measures were in place, while 42 investigations were in progress in March. The three new inquiries started since the beginning of the year - two anti-dumping inquiries and one anti-subsidy inquiry - concern China (an anti-dumping subsidy targeting stainless steel seamless tubes, and an anti-dumping inquiry and an anti-subsidy inquiry targeting Chinese solar glass). Since the start of the year, three inquiries have been concluded with the imposition of provisional duties (anti-subsidy and anti-dumping measures against Indian stainless steel wires and anti-dumping measures against Argentinian and Indonesian biodiesel) and seven inquiries have been concluded with the imposition of definitive duties (anti-dumping measures targeting Russian and Turkish tube and pipe fittings, American bioethanol, certain aluminium foil from China, Chinese ceramic tableware, Thai and Chinese malleable cast iron cast iron pipe fittings, and anti-subsidy and anti-dumping measures targeting Chinese organic coated steel products). (EH/transl.fl)