欧盟反倾销新方法评析

A Commentary on EU’s New Anti-dumping Methodology

自2017年12月欧盟对其反倾销法规进行修订以来,其所引入的计算正常价值的新方法已经被适用于针对中国的反倾销调查。新方法在存在严重扭曲的情况下拒绝使用出口国国内价格和成本,本质上是一种变相的替代国方法。它在很多方面都不符合GATT 1994第6条和《反倾销协定》相关条款的规定,也不存在GATT 1994第6条和《反倾销协定》相关条款的许可。此外,欧盟委员会单方面发布的关于中国经济存在严重扭曲的报告,是基于选择性事实得出的有偏见的结论,即使依据修订后的欧盟反倾销法规也存在不能自洽的法律缺陷。发布报告的做法严重影响欧盟委员会作为调查机关在反倾销调查中的客观性和中立性。

Since the EU amended its anti-dumping regulation in Decern・ber 2017,the newly adopted methodology for the calculation of normal value has been applied to anti-dumping investigations against China.The new methodology is a disguised subrogate country methodology,which rejects the domestic prices and costs of exporting countries under the circumstance of significant distortions.This methodology may not be consistent with and permitted under Article VI of GATT 1994 and the relevant provisions of the Anti-dumping Agreement.Besides,the European Commission unilaterally released a report on significant distortions in the economy of the People's Republic of China.This report reaches its biased conclusions on selective facts and has legal defects of not being sei匸content even under the EU's amended anti-dumping regulation.The release of this report and its actual usage have significantly undermined the objectiveness,neutrality and impartiality of the European Commission as an investigation authority in anti-dumping investigations.