On Tuesday 5 April, the European Commission published an implementing regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on Chinese imports of certain rubber tyres used for buses and trucks.
It had already imposed such a measure in 2018, but a Chinese business association and chamber of commerce appealed against the regulation to the EU General Court. The latter annulled part of the regulation in a 2022 ruling, finding that the European Commission had made several errors of assessment in its anti-dumping investigation against several companies.
It did the same for the ‘anti-subsidy’ investigation that the European Commission had launched on the same products, and the resulting countervailing duty.
However, the mistakes made during the investigation do not prevent the European Commission from starting the investigation from scratch and imposing new anti-dumping duties based on the results.
It did so with this implementing regulation of 5 April, at least as far as the companies that suffered injury in the previous investigation are concerned.
It also imposes an appropriate countervailing duty, so that European producers can cope with subsidies from Chinese imports.
See the implementing regulation for the anti-dumping duty: https://aeur.eu/f/697
And for the countervailing duty: https://aeur.eu/f/698 (Original version in French by Léa Marchal)