On July 19, an exciting news message came from China's pump and valve pipe industry. Suzhou Yuli Pipe Co., Ltd. received an official email from the European Commission, confirming that the EU's anti-dumping investigation on China's stainless steel butt weldments has entered the withdrawal period.

After more than half a year's efforts, the EU's anti-dumping case against China's stainless steel butt weldments, with the active response of Suzhou Yuli Pipe Industry Co., Ltd. and other manufacturers of China's stainless steel butt weldments, has recently settled the dust and won a satisfactory outcome. Finally, the EU will withdraw the lawsuit, which also ensures the reasonable rights and interests of China.

It is reported that on November 10, 2012, the European Commission issued a notice that at the application of the Defense Committee of the stainless steel butt welding fittings industry of the European Union, the European Commission decided to launch an anti-dumping investigation on stainless steel tube butt welding fittings originating in China. The customs codes of the products involved are 73072310 and 73072390. The investigation period of this case is from October 1, 2011 to September 31, 2012. According to the anti-dumping law of the European Commission, enterprises involved in the case must submit sampling questionnaires within 15 days from the date of filing and announcement. The deadline for sampling questionnaires in this case is November 26, 2012. The European Commission intends to select the United States as the substitute country in this case.

According to the statistical data of Minmetals chamber of Commerce, "Yuli group" including its affiliated companies Suzhou Yuli Pipe Industry Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Yuli Pipe Industry Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Zhide Pipe Industry Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jiesheng Pipe Industry Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Yancheng Dafeng Pipe Industry Co., Ltd. ranked first in the data of products exported to the EU during the investigation period, and it is more likely to be selected as a mandatory respondent.

After many discussions, Yuli management decided to actively respond to the European Commission's investigation to obtain the best investigation results and ensure the company's export interests. And finally decided to entrust the international trade relief team of Beijing Yingke Law firm to respond to the lawsuit on its behalf.

It is understood that as the largest exporter of stainless steel butt weldments to Europe in China, Yuli pipe industry has a wide and profound understanding of the European market. The overall production capacity of the European stainless steel butt weldments industry is relatively low, the production cycle is relatively long, and the production cost is high, which leads to the lack of market competitiveness of the industry. Moreover, the scale of European producers is relatively small and the market price is high. On the one hand, they can not meet the demand of the European market at all, and on the other hand, the high prices are difficult for European consumers to accept.

Yuli management decided to start from both dumping and damage, so as to obtain the best result of this investigation - no damage settlement. During this period, Suzhou Yuli pipe industry has done a lot of data research and analysis, providing very favorable and detailed EU market information data and manufacturer data through multiple channels. After doing a lot of preparatory work, Suzhou Yuli management applied to the European Commission through the EU cooperation lawyer to hold a hearing on the investigation, which was agreed by the European Commission, and was informed that the hearing would be held on June 12, 2013 in the member states of the European Commission.

On June 12, 2013, the leaders of Suzhou Yuli management and the lawyers of Beijing Yingke Law firm went directly to Brussels, where the headquarters of the European Commission is located, to participate in the hearing. Suzhou Yuli management is also the only enterprise in the process of responding to the lawsuit to hold a hearing on the investigation application in the European Commission.

In this hearing, Mr. Nicola and MS Olga stiegrad, the leader of Suzhou Yuli management, the lawyer of Beijing Yingke Law Firm, and Kenneth Davies, the EU partner lawyer of Yingke, attended the meeting. At the meeting, Suzhou Yuli pipe industry introduced the purpose of this hearing and detailed data, and claimed the irrationality of this investigation to the European Commission. Through a large number of detailed and specific data, it demonstrated to the European Commission that Chinese stainless steel butt weldments did not cause damage to relevant industries in the EU.

With the efforts of Suzhou Yuli management and other parties, the plaintiff submitted an application for withdrawal of the case to the European Commission within 15 days after the hearing, that is, on June 27, 2013.

At present, this case is in the review period of the plaintiff's withdrawal application. In the near future, we can predict that this case will become one of the few cases of the plaintiff's withdrawal in the European Commission's anti-dumping investigation against China.