EU orders that have been separated for 7 years are back! In the past two days, the first batch of fasteners sent to the EU market by Haiyan Haitang Standard Parts Factory began to be shipped in succession. After seven years of transnational "tug of war", Chinese fastener enterprises finally fought back against the EU's high anti-dumping tax rate and returned to the EU market.
"We have worked hard for this moment for seven years, and the victory is hard won!" As one of the "iron enterprises" actively participating in the collective response, Haitang General Manager Fu Shengbo sighed. On February 27 this year, the European Commission decided to officially cancel the anti-dumping measures against Chinese steel fasteners. As soon as the announcement was released, the European "small partners" who have cooperated with seawalls for more than ten years immediately returned. Other fastener enterprises in Jiaxing have also returned to Europe.
"This is a protracted transnational lawsuit." Qian Yueping, secretary-general of Jiaxing Fastener Association, said that in 2009, the EU began to impose anti-dumping duties of up to 85% on China's fastener products, which directly affected China's exports to Europe by nearly 1 billion dollars. As the main area involved in the case, Jiaxing fastener industry suffered a heavy blow. According to the data of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, from 2008 to 2015, the export value of fasteners from the city to the EU dropped from 332.88 million dollars to 154.28 million dollars, down 54%; The export volume of the products involved to the EU dropped from 141.49 million dollars to 9.85 million dollars, down 93%. Many enterprises were forced to withdraw from the EU market.
Faced with unfair anti-dumping duties, Chinese fastener enterprises represented by Jiaxing enterprises fought back and urged the Ministry of Commerce to resort to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism for relevant EU legislation and anti-dumping measures. On July 15, 2011, the WTO ruled that China had won the lawsuit and required the EU to complete the revision of relevant laws by the end of 2012. China won the first case against the EU in the WTO.
However, the EU only reduced the anti-dumping duty to 74.1% when implementing the ruling. The fine adjustment of the tax rate is just a scratch, and the rest of the ruling will not be implemented. In October 2013, the Chinese side launched another "enforcement lawsuit" and won the lawsuit again on January 18 this year.
"Win hard, but clean!" Zhang Jiansheng, Director of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, believes that the victory of this lawsuit means that the highest barrier to our fastener enterprises has been broken and the door to the EU market will be opened again.
"In addition to bringing substantial benefits to the enterprise, the case is also of great institutional significance." Li Ye, a lawyer from Jintiancheng (Beijing) Law Firm, who undertook the case, believes that this case is the first case in China to challenge the WTO dispute and win a total victory over the abuse of substitute countries by the EU. The case shook the EU's anti-dumping legislation against China for a long time, and also changed the unreasonable practices in the EU's anti-dumping investigation practice, which will help Chinese enterprises to improve the effectiveness of responding to the EU's anti-dumping investigation.
"The fastener industry is large but not strong, but it is really commendable that the whole industry can actively take up the challenge and not retreat or give up!" Chen Fuyi, Deputy Director of the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the Jiaxing experience of the "four body linkage" between the Ministry of Commerce and local competent commercial departments, industry associations and enterprises involved in the anti-dumping case of fasteners between China and Europe has become an effective experience for China's commercial departments to deal with international trade frictions.
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