At a meeting of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade today, Sabine Weyand, the Director-General at DG Trade of the European Commission, testified on issues related to the European approach to forced labor, with products from the Xinjiang region clearly in the background of the discussion.

In November, we wrote about the European Commission imposing anti-dumping duties ranging from 19.7% to 44% on imports of optical fibre cables from China. Yesterday, the European Commission announced countervailing duties on the same products.

The European Commission has adopted a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel originating in the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America following an expiry review of existing duties. One aspect

The European Commission has adopted [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2348] definitive countervailing duties on imports of aluminum converter foil from China. The level of anti-dumping duties imposed [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/eu-anti-dumping-decision-on-aluminum-converter-foil-discusses-role-of-ccp-in-company-management/] on this product several weeks ago ranged from 15.4% to 28.

The European Commission has adopted [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2346] definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of steel wind towers from China. The level of the anti-dumping duties ranges from 7.2% to 19.2%. One aspect of the Commission's reasoning relates to

Previously, we reported that the European Commission has discussed the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Chinese companies in several of its recent anti-dumping rulings (see here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/eu-anti-dumping-decision-on-aluminum-converter-foil-discusses-role-of-ccp-in-company-management/] , here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/eu-anti-dumping-decision-on-optical-fibre-cables-discusses-role-of-ccp-in-company-management/] , and here [https://www.chinatrademonito

The European Commission has adopted [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2338] definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of aluminum converter foil from China. The level of the anti-dumping duties ranges from 15.4% to 28.5%. One interesting aspect of the Commission's reasoning relates