ECJ Strikes Down General Court Ruling Annulling AD Duties on Chinese Pipes and Tubes
Europe's top court, the European Court of Justice, annulled an EU General Court ruling which struck down the European Commission's antidumping duties on imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron (other than cast iron) or steel (other than…
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stainless steel) from China. The Jan. 20 decision from the ECJ said that the General Court was wrong to hold that the commission was required to consider the effects of the dumped imports of every product type at issue sold by the industry for that product. The ECJ further ruled that the General Court erred when it required the commission to examine the extent to which the prices of the 17 product types may have contributed to the fall in the prices of the sampled EU producers. The decision sends the case back to the General Court, where litigation will resume over the fate of the antidumping duties.