On Thursday 11 May, EU trade ministers gave their backing to the Council position adopted by the member state ambassadors, in early May, on a new methodology for the anti-dumping calculation (to settle the issue of how China should be treated in the EU's anti-dumping investigations), with a view to trialogue negotiations with the European Parliament. The anti-dumping arrangements for China in the protocol on China's WTO accession have now expired (see EUROPE 11780).
"An agreement on...