Russia has sent a claim against additional U.S. import duties on steel and aluminum to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Development Ministry said in a statement, citing Minister Maxim Oreshkin. “The reason for the claim is multiple WTO rule violations committed by the U.S. during the introduction of this measure. Besides Russia, China, India,…
Ukrainian companies can count on being excluded from the US steel and aluminum sanctions lists. “We believe that we can seriously rely on being excluded from the duties lists. US is rather seriously reviewing our arguments”, deputy minister of economical development and trade, trade representative of Ukraine Natalia Mikolskaya said following the negotiations with US…
The European Commission has stopped the antidumping investigation of the imports of ferrosilicon with Ukrainian origin. Following the investigation, Ukrainian products will not be affected by antidumping duties on the EU market. In 2017 Ukraine exported $54.7 million worth of ferrosilicon to EU, up by $17.8 million YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Lithuanian officials say that the US decision to impose tariffs on EU steel and aluminum imports is very disappointing, but does not mean a trade war. According to Deputy Foreign Minister Albinas Zananaviius, Lithuania is “very disappointed”, because the intensive talks between the European Commission and the United States, and efforts by other European countries…
The official information on the stop of the antidumping investigation on Ukrainian and Egyptian ferrosilicon imports to EU will be published soon, “The Ukrainian Association of Ferroalloy Producers has recently received such a reply to its letter”, the association executive director Sergey Kudryavtsev wrote on his Facebook page. According to him, this was the result…
The European Commission has started reviewing the volume of the antidumping duties in respect of pipe imports from Ukraine, manufactured by Interpipe. “The claimant has provided enough evidence that the application of the current level of duties is no longer necessary”, the commission said. The review can take up to 15 months. In early July…
The Ministry of Economic Development has hosted another meeting of the sub-commission on customs-tariff, non-tariff regulation and protective measures in foreign trade of the government commission on economic development and integration. In particular, the issue of US decision to impose special import duties of 25% on ferrous metal and 10% on aluminum was discussed. The…
The government of Ukraine and Eurocommission have started negotiating the non-inclusion of Ukraine into the list of countries as to which the EU could impose limitations on metal products supplies. “We have spoken of the special protective investigation on the import of metal. That’s some 26 items”, deputy minister of economic development and trade, trade…
