EU decides to Impose No Anti-Dumping Duty on Indian Silico Manganese

The Commission reached a conclusion on the under-investigation dumped silico manganese imports from India and has terminated proceedings without the imposition of measures as it could not establish a link between imports from India and the injury suffered by the Union industry.

On 20 December 2014, the European Commission initiated an anti-dumping investigation with regard to imports into the Union of silico manganese originating in India, following a complaint lodged by the Comité de Liaison des Industries de Ferro-Alliages on behalf of three Union producers.

The investigation of dumping and injury covered the period from 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2014. The Commission considered that the lack of coincidence in time between the deterioration in the economic situation of the cooperating Union producers and the trends of volume and market share of the dumped imports of silico manganese from India does not allow concluding that the dumped imports from India are causing injury to the two cooperating Union producers.

The investigation established the existence of counter-trends between the increase in volume of the dumped imports and the injury suffered by the two cooperating Union producers. In addition, the investigation could establish hardly any undercutting by the Indian imports. As a consequence, it was demonstrated that the volume and/or price levels of the Indian dumped imports were not responsible for the injurious situation of the two cooperating Union producers.

Imports from India represent around one-fourth of the total silico manganese imports into the Union and have the biggest market share of total imports in the Union. Silico manganese is imported into the Union from a significant number of other countries. Apart from India, there are three main exporting countries (by volume): Norway, South Africa, and Ukraine. The top four countries represent around 90% of total silico manganese imports into the Union and have a market share of around 70%. During the Investigation Period (1 Oct’13 to 30 Sep’14) India exported around 230,000 MT of silico manganese to the European Union, and this ruling will bring some cheer to the Indian producers that have been witnessed very poor domestic and overseas demand in the year gone by.