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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10903
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) china

EU appeals to WTO on anti-dumping duties on steel tubes

Brussels, 20/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 16 August, the European Union called on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to set up a special panel to rule on a dispute concerning anti-dumping duties imposed by China on imports of high performance seamless stainless steel tubes (HP-SSST) from the EU.

The European Commission believes that the Chinese anti-dumping duties are incompatible with WTO arrangements both on procedural and substantive grounds. On 17-18 July consultations were held at the...