Council members will not only try to reach an agreement to sign CETA at a pencilled in EU Canada summit next week. They will also discuss EU plans to overhaul its antidumping legislation ahead of a planned move to grant China market economy treatment. And the steel industry is watching …
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INTA Chair Lange worries China MES deadline will be missed
In a letter to Commissioner Malmström, the head of the European Parliament’s trade committee expressed concerns the EU was running late in tabling legislative proposals to ensure it in compliance with its WTO obligations ahead of a December 2016 deadline to grant China market economy treatment in its antidumping legislation. …
Commission antidumping overhaul plans stirs mixed feelings
On Wednesday, the Commission announced it would no longer single out China in its antidumping duties ahead of a December 2016, deadline that it believes obliges it to drop it from the list of ‘non market economies’ that allow it to use a non WTO compliant methodology in calculating antidumping …
China MES: EU trade defence law to move “closer to American model”
Instead of risking not being in compliance with WTO rules by refusing to grant China market economy treatment in EU antidumping law, the Commission is seeking to overhaul its trade defence policy more broadly, and move it “closer to the American model of trade defence”, Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen …
BIG READ – PART 3 – China MES, the steel crisis, and the EU
Continued from Part 2.
BIG READ – PART 2 – China MES, the steel crisis, and the EU
Continued from Part 1. Crisis-stricken steel sector in lead against China MES
BIG READ – PART 1: China MES, the steel crisis, and the EU
The current European and global debate over whether WTO members should treat China as a market economy in their domestic trade defence laws is also a battle over the future business model of a crisis stricken steel industry, and over the integrity of the global trading system. The unfolding saga, viewed …
