EU Trade Defense Report

The 2022 report on the EU's trade defence activities, was published this week. It shows that the European Commission has continued to be active and assertive in defending EU producers against unfair trade practices in 2022 by robustly applying the legislation and ensuring that measures are effective.

2022 saw a decrease in the number of new investigations opened as a result of the lower number of complaints received from industry, in line with a global drop reflecting particular market conditions in the most recent period.

At the same time there was a high number of reviews initiated contributing to a high caseload for the year. The imposition of measures during 2022 meant that as many as 177 trade defence measures were in place at the end of the year.

Ensuring the effectiveness of these measures remained a priority for the Commission, with much attention given to monitoring of high-risk measures and action to address any activity designed to undermine the impact of the EU’s trade defence remedies. The Commission also continued to successfully intervene in several trade defence cases against the EU or its Member States by third countries. 

The European Commission will give an overview of the 41st Annual Report covering the EU’s anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard activities, as well as the trade defence activity of third countries against the EU in 2022.

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