In final determinations issued in recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Commerce mostly confirmed its preliminary determinations that several manufacturers of photovoltaic cells and modules have been circumventing anti-dumping/countervailing duties imposed on imports from China by doing "minor processing" in four Southeast Asian countries. However,

The U.S. Commerce Department has announced a proposed rule that would eliminate the current regulation preventing it from countervailing "transnational" or "cross-border" subsidies, with China's BRI subsidies a likely target of any new countervailing duties.

Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department issued preliminary determinations in its anti-dumping duty investigations of tin mill products from a number of countries, using what it considered to be an insufficient response from Chinese companies to set much higher duties for them than for companies from other countries.

At the May 3, 2023 meeting of the WTO Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices, a number of issues were raised by China in relation to other Members’ anti-dumping laws and practices, and by other Members in relation to Chinese practices.

Today the European Commission announced two actions related to anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports.

Last week, the EU adopted two separate anti-dumping measures extending existing duties on Chinese imports, one on certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or steel and one on certain continuous filament glass fibre products.

Earlier this week, the European Commission imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of stainless steel refillable kegs originating in China.