38th Annual Report on the EU’s Anti-Dumping, Anti-Subsidy and Safeguard activities and the Use of trade defence instruments by Third Countries targeting the EU in 2019

Summary:

Annual report published by the European Commission in May 2020, concerning the European Union's Anti-Dumping, Anti-Subsidy and Safeguard activities and the Use of trade defence instruments by Third Countries targeting the EU in 2019.

Further information:

The report highlights the effectiveness in the reduction of unfair international trading practices in 2019. The anti-dumping or anti-subsidy duties imposed by the European Commission led on average to an 80% decrease in unfair imports. EU measures also protected 23,000 more jobs than a year before.

This report notes in particular:

• Continued high-level of EU trade defence activity;
• Increase in the number of EU jobs protected;
• Sustained effectiveness of EU trade defence measures in reducing unfair imports;
• Resolute action to safeguard EU steel market;
• Strong focus on enforcement and countering circumvention;
• New recourse to safeguard measures;
• Strong defence of EU exporters targeted in foreign trade defence investigations.

Official

European Commission: Press Release, 04/05/2020: Trade defence report: restoring the level playing field for European producers https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_780

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