Ukrainian officials have expressed optimism regarding the awaited outcome of the antidumping investigations into Ukrainian imports of silicomanganese to the European Union (EU), initiated by the European Commission (EC) in September last year.
Ms. Natalya Sidoruk, deputy director of the Ukrainian Commission for Antidumping Investigations and Domestic Market Protection, has said the EC will decide on the issue in November. However, Ms. Sidoruk continued by adding that the decision regarding Ukrainian silicomanganese imports to the EU will be a formality since the initiator of the complaint - Euroalliages, (the Association of European Ferro-alloy Producers) - could not prove that Ukrainian producers practiced dumping in their silicomanganese imports to the EU.
As previously reported by SteelOrbis, in September 2006 the EC initiated an AD investigation into imports of silicomanganese from three countries - Ukraine, Kazakhstan and China - based on a complaint filed by Euroalliages on behalf of the major EU silicomanganese producers. The complaint alleges that silicomanganese imported from China, Kazakhstan and Ukraine is being dumped, thereby causing material injury to the EU industry.