The EU First Sanctioned Chinese Products &Nbsp With "Double Anti", And The MOFCOM Firmly Opposes It.

In May 14th, the European Union will decide to impose 4%-12% against China's imports of coated paper.

Yao Jian said that the relevant departments and respondent enterprises of the Chinese government have fully cooperated with the European Commission in this case, providing a lot of evidence to prove that China's coated paper industry is a highly competitive industry. Under the conditions of market economy, the government neither interferes with the daily operation of enterprises, nor determines the market price.

The European side ignored China's cooperation and ignored the product.

Analysts pointed out that, because the EU has so far refused to recognize China's market economy status, therefore, in anti-dumping cases, the EU often arbitrarily selects an alternative country to calculate the normal price of the involved products, usually higher than the domestic price, and then use this normal price to measure whether the Chinese products are dumping at low price in the EU market and calculating the dumping margin, which is used to determine the anti-dumping duty rate.

The reason for the EU's legal logic is that China is not a market economy, so the price of goods in China's domestic market has been artificially depressed due to various government subsidies, and can not be used as a reference when measuring whether dumping is going on.

That is to say, even if the Chinese government has subsidies, the EU calculates the anti-dumping duty because the use of the substituting countries has already taken into account the subsidy part, which has enlarged the dumping margin.

Now, the addition of countervailing duty constitutes double calculation and repeated punishment, which is contrary to the basic legal principle.

Yao Jian stressed that China and the EU should stand at the height of China EU comprehensive strategic cooperation partners, take a more comprehensive view of Sino EU economic and trade relations, comply with the inherent laws of economic and trade cooperation, adhere to the concept of free trade, oppose all forms of trade protectionism, avoid abusing trade remedy measures, properly handle economic and trade frictions through consultation and cooperation, take care of each other's concerns, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

Yao Jian further pointed out that China will carefully study and assess the final ruling of the EU coated paper, and retain the right to take corresponding measures in accordance with the law so as to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.