EU improves its antidumping rules in run-up to May's expansion

This information was confirmed yesterday by EU Foreign Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, who also added that producers from all accessing states will no longer suffer from antidumping duties as of May 1, 2004 and that they will additionally gain protection from countries such as Russia, China and India. However, specialists have stressed that accessing countries will become equally volatile to similar moves from the third countries, which will be directed against the EU. On Monday the EU imposed new antidumping duties on a number of goods from a variety of countries, including Norway. (www.biznes.onet.pl) M.M.