On Friday 13 February, the European Commission ruled that Chinese countervailing duties on certain European dairy products in China were “unwarranted and unjustified”.
Beijing has effectively implemented the final application of these additional tariffs, but has reduced them since the December announcement of the provisional duties, to between 7.4% and 11.7% (see EUROPE B13778A10).
Be that as it may, the Commission remains “firmly of the view that these investigations should not have...