Russia can contest the EU antidumping duties in WTO

In the near future, Russia can contest in the WTO the EU antidumping duties introduced against the Russian metal and chemical products. Thus, the argument of Russia and the EU in WTO which broke at the beginning of October around the car recycling tax can transform to a full-fledged trade war.

The newspaper Kommersant has written today that Russia claims from the EU to stop the usage of the method of ‘energy corrections’ in its anti-dumping investigations against the Russian goods, referring to several sources in the Government. In their opinion, the method gives to the EU an opportunity to find dumping even if it’s absent in fact. The annual losses of the Russian producers from the anti-dumping measures is $500 million. One of the sources claims that the point of the fees calculated with the usage of ‘energy corrections’ to several goods can be brought up for discussion in WTO in the next few weeks.