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• Arnoud Willems, Dr. Bregt Natens and Vineet Hegde
• 2024-11-01
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EU starts automatically registering product imports

On September 24, the European Commission ("committee”) announced that, as a general policy measure, it would initiate automatic registration of imported products subject to anti-dumping and countervailing investigations (including ongoing investigations). To date, complainants have had to ask the Commission to rely on inventory evidence (i.e. Evidence of increased imports during the investigation) Registering imports. On October 24, the European Commission issued several regulations to register imports in virtually all ongoing anti-dumping and countervailing investigations. Although registration is a purely administrative step taken by EU customs authorities, it is a necessary first step towards the possible retroactive imposition of anti-dumping or countervailing duties. Anti-dumping and countervailing duties can be imposed retroactively for a period of up to 90 days from the date the Commission imposes the provisional duties. In order to impose retrospective duties, the Commission must demonstrate that EU imports of the products in question increased significantly during the period of investigation, which could undermine the remedial effect of…