On Wednesday 9 November, the European Commission unveiled plans to settle the tricky question of how China should be treated in anti-dumping investigations in the EU when certain measures of its accession protocol to the WTO expire in December.
The new methodology it is proposing for calculating dumping margins for imports from countries where there is a severely uneven playing field, or the state greatly influences the economy, does not confer market economy status (MES) and is neutral...