Abstract
This paper examines the Commission’s investigations which led to the application of provisional or definitive Anti-dumping duty on cotton-type bed linen originating from Pakistan. It starts with the analysis of EU Commission’s findings, then it evaluates the EU Council’s definitive measures; at the end, it discusses the EU Court of Justice’s judgement declaring ‘zeroing’ against the spirit of Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 (the basic regulation). The consistency and/or inconsistency of the EU’s application of Antidumping law is established on the basis of dissimilar or similar calculations drawn from the EU institutions (about comparison, normal value and dumping margin etc.) in two different cases but having similar circumstances. Similarly, the interpretation of provisions of basic regulation as drawn by the Commission, the EU Council and EU Courts are cross-checked against each other, thus their corroboration or contradiction is figured out. Using the doctrinal research method, data is mainly collected from the EU Commission’s and the Council’s regulations and from the judgements of the EU Courts. The data are analyzed by using cross case analysis, within case analysis and legal principles of interpretation of statutes and judgements.
Keyword(s)
Anti-dumping duty, zeroing, normal value, de minimis dumping margin