Eu Anti-dumping Countermeasures

The EU is one of the world's most important trading areas as well as a traditional anti-dumping superpower. From the founding of the WTO to the end of 2002, there are a total of 267 anti-dumping cases dealt by EU, the third largest anti-dumping area, second only to India and the United States,. Through all the time, there are no less than 20 cases every year, with the highest 65 ones in 1999. The first case of anti-dumping to China was initiated by the European Union, which started EU's and the world's anti-dumping to China. Up to the October 2008, the EU has dealt with 196 anti-dumping cases with China, becoming the largest anti-dumping-to-China area along with the United States. 'Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred Battles without defeat' Only when the EU does a full research about the anti-dumping rules can it find the key to the problem, which is to effectively safeguard the interests of our nation and export enterprises in order to deal with the EU anti-dumping investigations. This paper states the anti-dumping system in aspects such as the history and the existing system of the EU's anti-dumping law reform, the comparison of anti-dumping procedure system between the European Union and China, the EU's new anti-dumping trend, the analysis of the reasons for EU's anti-dumping to China and its responsive strategies. Combining with the new trend of the EU's current anti-dumping law development, the paper focuses on China's strategy so as to safeguard the national interests and propose my own.