The European Commission's latest annual report on anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard activities, published on Tuesday 31 July, states that the European Union's activity on trade defence was intense in 2017, both on the level of investigations – new (greatly up as regards re-assessments of anti-dumping measures) and ongoing – and on the legislative level, with the adoption of new methodology for the anti-dumping calculation and an inter-institutional agreement on modernising trade...