EU Doubles Duties on Chinese Companies Helping Evade AD Duties on Tableware
The European Commission will double the tariffs on tableware from more than 30 companies in China that were found to have helped other Chinese companies avoid the existing antidumping duties on tableware, it said in a news release. “The investigation…
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has confirmed that Chinese companies are evading anti-dumping duties of around 36% by channelling their ceramic exports through other companies that were subject to lower anti-dumping duties of around 18%,” it said. As a result, those companies will also be subject to the higher duty rate. The new rate will apply from March 21, 2019, and the EC will collect about €15 million ($16.7 million equivalent) in retroactive duties, it said. “This is the Commission’s largest anti-circumvention investigation to date,” the EC said. “It involved very significant resources, with 20 Commission investigators carrying out on spot verifications at 50 Chinese companies.”