"These investigations are essential because of strong evidence of dumping, which is aggravated and spurred on by massive subsidies by the Chinese government to build up national champions with huge excess capacity," said Frank Leerkotte, managing director of
CEPIFINE. "The EU industry could not wait any longer to request these investigations due to the pace of the increase in imports of dumped and subsidised CFP from China and the negative impact they are having in the European market," he added.