EU Commission reopens cotton anti-dumping case<\/p>\n
BRUSSELS (Reuter): The European Commission reopened inquiries
\ninto alleged dumping of unbleached cotton imports from six
\ncountries on Thursday, setting the stage for another internal
\ntussle over the bloc's anti-dumping tactics.<\/p>\n
"The decision to open the cotton inquiries was approved," a
\nCommission official told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Renewed Commission inquiries into grey cotton fabric from
\nChina, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey followed a
\ncomplaint by Eurocoton, the Committee of the Cotton and allied
\nTextile Industries of the European Union.<\/p>\n
Thursday's decision, to be published in the EU's Official
\nJournal during the coming days, said initial work by Commission
\nofficials revealed evidence of "substantial" dumping margins for
\nfabric imports from the six countries named.<\/p>\n
It reopens a file closed only last May when a majority of EU
\ntrade ministers rejected the Commission's case for setting
\ndefinitive dumping duties against the same six countries.<\/p>\n
Eurocoton reacted furiously at the time, saying the ministers
\nhad acted unlawfully and vowing to consider legal action in the
\nEuropean Court of Justice.<\/p>\n
The measures ministers rejected would have hit imports from
\nthe six named countries worth 379 million European currency units
\n(US$424 million) in 1995.<\/p>\n
Those proposals would have hit Chinese-origin imports with
\n18.9 percent duties, those from Egypt with 13 percent, India 17.2
\npercent, Indonesia 14.5 percent, Pakistan 22.9 percent and Turkey
\n17.5 percent.<\/p>",
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