According to China trade relief information network on March 1, on February 27, 2016, the European Commission issued a notice saying that, according to the relevant ruling of the WTO dispute settlement agency, it decided to officially cancel the anti-dumping measures for steel fasteners originating in China on the day after the announcement was issued, and at the same time cancel the anti circumvention measures for fasteners from Malaysia. The customs codes of the products involved are 73181290, 73181491, 73181499, 73181559, 73181569, 73181581, 73181589, 73181590, 73182100 and 73182200.
In November 2007, the European Union filed an anti-dumping investigation on steel fasteners originating in China; in January 2009, the European Union made a positive final decision on this case. In July 2009, China resorted to the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism on EU anti-dumping measures for fasteners to China. In July 2011, the WTO Appellate Body ruled that the European Commission violated WTO rules in many aspects of the procedures and entities of this case. Since then, China has been closely following the implementation of the European Commission's ruling on the above-mentioned bodies. In October 2013, the Chinese government once again used the WTO dispute settlement mechanism to file an enforcement lawsuit, asking the European Commission to completely correct all violations in this case; on January 18, 2016, the WTO issued an appeal agency report on the enforcement objection procedure in the case of China v. EU's final anti-dumping measures against China's steel fasteners (ds397).
