In its report issued on Thursday 2 October, a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruled that the EU’s countervailing duty on cold-rolled stainless steel flat products from Indonesia did not fully comply with the relevant WTO rules. It is therefore asking the Commission to bring its measure into line, i.e. to review the investigation or to withdraw the countervailing duty.
The judges found that the Commission had wrongly attributed certain aid granted to the steel sector to the...