EU Commission signals it will continue using third-country data in AD cases against China

With key provisions of China's WTO Accession Protocol expiring within two months, the European Commission appears set to table a proposal that would no longer label China as a non-market economy but still leave open the option to use price and cost data from third countries in antidumping cases if market distortions are found. “The Commission will propose a new anti-dumping methodology to capture market distortions linked to state intervention in third countries that mask the true extent of dumping...