Brussels, 01/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has decided to review the anti-dumping measures to be applied to imports of certain grain-oriented electrical sheets originating in Russia. Review, to be opened as announced in the Official Journal No C53, covers the form and the maintenance of these measures beyond their expiry date, for a further five years.
Currently, the Russian products concerned - grain-oriented cold-rolled sheets and strips of silicon-electrical steel - are subject to definitive anti-dumping duties introduced in February 1996. Part of the review, according to a request lodged by the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries (Eurofer), aims to determine (by using Brazil as a reference market economy country) whether the expiry of the measures would result in the continuation and/or recurrence of dumping and injury to the Community industry. This could be the case given the elements of proof provided by the spokesman's service for European producers in this affair. At the same time, the Commission has, at its own initiative, opened an intermediary review on the form of the measures, as the problems of implementation revealed during surveillance of commitments taken by certain incriminated traders have lessened the correcting effect of such measures. All parties interested are invited to make known their points of view and the information available to them, with supporting elements of proof, within a little over one month.