Luxembourg, 08/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Court of First Instance of the EU has reduced by 13 million EUR fines imposed by the European Commission in 1999 on eight producers of steel tubes, to a total of 99 million EUR. This reduction is the result of the Court of First Instance's cancellation of the part of the Commission's decision relating to the existence of an infringement to the competition rules before 1 January 1994 and for Japanese businesses post 30 June 1994, according to a...