36th annual report on the EU’s anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard activities (2017)

Summary:

This report describes the European Union's anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard activities during 2017. It has been prepared pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 on protection against dumped imports (‘basic AD Regulation’), Regulation (EU) 2016/1037 on protection against subsidised imports (‘basic AS Regulation’), and Regulation (EU) 2015/478 on common rules for imports. The report is accompanied by a Commission Staff Working Document together with detailed annexes, providing a comprehensive overview of the existing legislation, terminology and procedures.

Further information:

2017 was a milestone year for trade defence policy in the EU. First, on 20 December 2017, a change of the basic anti-dumping and anti-subsidy regulations entered into force, introducing a new methodology for calculating normal value in situations where prices and costs in the market of the exporting country are distorted.

Secondly, in December 2017, EU co-legislators achieved a breakthrough on a separate legislative proposal to modernise the EU's trade defence instruments and found an agreement on a broad range of topics. This agreement paved the way for the entry into force of this long-awaited legislation on 8 June 2018. These new rules apply to all investigations initiated after that date. Together both sets of amendments to the basic AD and AS Regulations constitute the first major overhaul of the EUs anti-dumping and anti-subsidy legislation since 1995.

EUR-Lex: SWD(2018)392: Commission Staff Working Document accompanying the report https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2018:392:FIN

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