Brussels, 31/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Fertiliser Importers Association (EFIA) vigorously reacted to the opening of a new anti-dumping procedure concerning imports of urea from "countries that have natural advantages and thus legitimate", it feels. The Trade Union suspects the European industry in this sector of "mounting a systematic campaign to close the Community market to imports of fertilisers to the greatest possible extent". According to it, "rather than resolving its problems of overcapacity the EFME - which represents the producers - has chosen to persuade the EU to build a protective wall around Europe, using the anti-dumping instrument to keep out imports". The EFIA recalls that the EFMA register four complaint last year and that, this year, it already called for two re-assessment and registered a complaint that is the cause of the new procedure denounced by the importers (urea from Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, Estonia, Libya, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Ukraine). "It is difficult to understand how the Commission can open the new urea case at a time when prices of imported nitrogen fertilisers (of which urea is one) are substantially higher that prices charged by EU industry", underlined the EFIA, and that according to it: industry would not be able to meet demand".