Austria-based steelmaker voestalpine's CEO Wolfgang Eder has stated that the European Commission is mulling launching a probe into alleged dumping of cold rolled stainless steel product imports from China and Taiwan by the end of this month, according to a Reuters report.
Reuters quoted the voestalpine CEO as saying that more antidumping cases are expected in the EU for the second half of the current year, affirming that "imports into the EU are going sharply up".
In 2008, the EU Commission launched an antidumping duty investigation against cold rolled stainless steel product imports from China, South Korea and Taiwan, upon a complaint made by the European Steel Association (EUROFER). In 2009 the commission announced the termination of the investigation since the complainant withdrew its complaint.