The Trade Remedies Authority has opened two new investigations into imports of excavators from China.
Excavators are used in construction work and are essential equipment used for digging and moving building materials.
This investigation is in response to two applications from JCB, a Staffordshire-based multinational business. The TRA will investigate whether these imports are being dumped or subsidised, and are causing injury to JCB’s business and to UK industry. Where the TRA recommends a remedy is necessary, we will conduct an economic interest test to assess whether the implementation of the remedy is in the UK’s economic interest.
Oliver Griffiths, TRA Chief Executive, said:
“Our investigations will examine whether excavators from China are being sold into the UK at unfair prices because of dumping and subsidisation – and whether we need remedies to protect the UK economy.”
The TRA is seeking information from all interested parties to establish whether imports of excavators from China are being dumped in the UK at prices below their normal value, or whether they benefit from government subsidies and whether this is causing injury to domestic industries.
