EU renews anti-dumping tax exposure policy defects for energy-saving lamps

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said on the 3rd that the European Commission’s proposal to continue to impose anti-dumping duties on China’s energy-saving light bulbs once again exposed the shortcomings of the EU’s anti-dumping policy, and the EU needs to adapt it to the needs of globalization.

Mandelson said at a seminar on globalization at the time in The Hague, the Netherlands, that although it is often reasonable and correct to impose trade punitive measures such as anti-dumping duties, if anti-dumping measures restrict EU companies from pursuing a reasonable business strategy, or As in the case of China's energy-saving light bulbs, it is blatant to disregard the EU's energy-saving policies and the reality of European production.

Mandelson believes that China's energy-saving light bulb case once again exposed the shortcomings of the EU's anti-dumping policy in the context of economic globalization. He said that as more and more EU companies “outsource” production to a third country with relatively cheap labor in China to remain competitive, the concept of EU companies is increasingly difficult to define. The EU should reflect on how to adopt trade such as anti-dumping. The measures are in line with the interests of EU companies and consumers, and draw a line between unfair trade practices and maintaining competitiveness.

Based on this reality, the European Commission issued a Green Paper in December last year to solicit public opinions and conduct the first large-scale assessment of trade measures including anti-dumping in 10 years.

Mandelson said that the results of the consultation will be announced in the next few weeks, when the European Commission will review the trade measures such as anti-dumping.

Since 2001, the EU has imposed anti-dumping duties on energy-saving light bulbs produced in China for a period of five years. Just as the anti-dumping measures expired in July last year, the EU launched a 15-month investigation. The original anti-dumping measures still apply during the investigation. The European Commission last week recommended that a one-year anti-dumping duty be imposed on energy-saving light bulbs produced in China, which will be automatically cancelled after expiration. As soon as this was done, it immediately attracted extensive criticism.

Most EU light bulb manufacturers, including Philips in the Netherlands, have complained because most of them have transferred production to China. The anti-dumping duties imposed by the EU have made these transnational and more competitive enterprises suffer.

Some environmentalists have criticized the European Commission's proposal for violating the EU's goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing energy consumption. It is estimated that the EU's self-produced energy-saving light bulbs can only meet one quarter of the market demand, and the rest must rely on imports.

In his speech, Mandelson also stated that the EU needs a positive attitude towards globalization. He said that it is precisely because of China that the clothes on the EU market are now one-third cheaper than they were 10 years ago; it is precisely because of the emerging markets that globalization has spawned that the EU can maintain an annual export growth of 8%; Globalization, the EU has ushered in today's economic prosperity.

WWF urges EU to lift anti-dumping duties on Asian energy-saving lamps

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on the 28th urged the EU to lift anti-dumping duties imposed on energy-saving lamps exported by Asian developing countries to the European market.

The World Wide Fund for Nature, based in Switzerland, is one of the world's leading conservation organizations. The Foundation’s European Policy Office consultant Evianhof said at a press conference in Brussels on the 28th that small electronic fluorescent lamps (CFL-i) exported by Asian countries are energy-saving lamps that can help the EU reduce carbon dioxide emissions. .

The EU's decision to cancel the anti-dumping tax on China's energy-saving lamps is not true.

Some domestic and foreign media recently reported that the EU has already decided to cancel the anti-dumping duties imposed on Chinese energy-saving light bulbs in October this year. Chen Yansheng, chairman of the China Lighting Association, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency on the 9th that "this report is not accurate."


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