One month 14 EU-China trade remedy investigations frequency lift

Department of Commerce is to coordinate, Association will also continue to be actively involved in the joint enterprise entered

14. in November the Commerce Department "foreign trade relief cases table, almost from the EU in occupies half of the country. Frequent, different means of trade investigation, shows the European economies to the new round of trade protection is gaining ground.

Launch of EU-intensive

Department of Commerce issued warning prompt before specialized, since the end of October this year, the European Commission in China in final cut aluminum alloy wheels, a levy sodium gluconate 5 years 22.3% and 53.2% anti-dumping duties; in the preliminary in China coated paper, melamine charge for a period of six months of the provisional anti-dumping duties; in the anti-dumping investigation on sunset review, polyester chips remain taxable.

In addition, the EU also China stainless steel fasteners, wire rope to launch anti-dumping investigation, sunset review called for EU industry to China in the stainless steel plate, hot rolled steel coil launch anti-dumping investigation.

Recently, EU Trade Commissioner de ancient Richter said in an interview, the EU will be on China's wide range of government subsidy to take action to defend against unfair subsidies of the Chinese market-price products to Europe and constitutes a threat to European industry.

Data show that in 2009, the EU-China trade remedy investigations play in the new ' 7, in the same year the EU global xinli case 58% and the EU also on my tungsten carbide cases launched 12 review survey, representing the EU on global launch review case 50%, China in the past two years has been the EU's trade remedies investigations of maximum target countries.

China economics in international trade Dean Zhaozhong Sau told national business news reporter, the EU-China trade friction is the rule, the majority are small, weak economic recovery in the world context, trade protectionism.

Investigate means to increase

In 2009, the EU and China trade friction in anti-dumping areas. But recently, the EU launched the case involves the anti-dumping, countervailing and anti-circumvention investigation and other means. Zhaozhong show that this is the EU trade protectionist tendencies to enhance the performance of specific, also in abuse of trade remedies.

For EU trade, de ancient Richter said: "I and EU business at the meeting, they are complaining about encounter serious problems of subsidies, primarily of low-cost loans and other forms of financial instruments. It is precisely because the company decided to Chinese products are subsidized to investigate, so we have more and more anti-subsidy cases. "It is not difficult to see that the countervailing has increasingly become the focus of the EU.

Department of Commerce, industrial injury investigation Bureau studies show that in our experience of foreign anti-subsidy investigation cases involving my tax, investment, trade, industry and other Central and local economic policy more than 150.

Further to the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations, the EU also on Chinese products use the anti-circumvention investigation of the relief measures. At the end, the EU published official notice on China by Malaysia re-export's fastener products launched the anti-circumvention investigation.

It is understood that, in response to the EU of a new round of trade friction, the Ministry of Commerce of fair trade, as is coordination. China paper Association Secretary-General Zhao said the Association will also be jointly involved in the enterprise and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, to continue its active litigation.