EU scrapes a win in WTO row over Russian duties on vans

EghtesadOnline: The European Union scored a few legal hits against Russia in a World Trade Organization ruling on Friday, having launched a challenge in May 2014 against Russian anti-dumping duties on German and Italian light commercial vehicles.

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27 January 2017

But the panel of WTO adjudicators, whose ruling can be appealed, threw out many of the EU's arguments. Russia had imposed duties of 29.6 percent on German van imports and 23 percent on imports from Italy in 2013, claiming that they were unfairly priced to undermine Russian producers, Reuters reported.