The 2022 report on the EU's trade defence activities, adopted today, shows that the European Commission has continued to be active and assertive in defending EU producers against unfair trade practices in 2022 by robustly applying the legislation and ensuring that measures are effective.

The European Commission has doubled its anti-dumping duties on optical fibre cables from China, following an investigation which found that Chinese exporters of optical fibre cables were attempting to impede the effects of the original measures.

The European Commission has renewed anti-dumping duties on imports of tungsten carbide from China for another five years, following an investigation which showed that EU industry would sustain injury from dumped imports if the measures were to lapse.

Today, the Commission imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of stainless steel refillable kegs originating in China for a period of five years. The duties imposed range from 62.6% to 69.6%.

Today the Commission amended the EU’s steel safeguard regulation to create two new tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for steel products released for free circulation in Northern Ireland from other parts of the UK.

Today, the European Commission adopted two Regulations which together renew, adjust and extend the scope of the existing measures on imports of high tenacity yarn of polyester (HTYP) from China.

The European Commission has extended the anti-dumping measures on imports of stainless steel hot-rolled coils (‘SSHR’) from Indonesia to imports of SSHR from Türkiye.

The European Commission renewed the anti-dumping measures on imports of stainless steel tube and pipe butt-welding fittings ('SSTPF') from China and Taiwan for another five years.

Early on Tuesday, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission made a breakthrough on the main outstanding issues of the legislative process of the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI).