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Europe set to award China 'Holy Grail' with tariff-rules revamp

Europe is offering political and economic rewards to Beijing by removing China from the European list of non-market-economy countries in dumping investigations

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Jonathan Stearns | Bloomberg
European industries from steel to solar are bracing for a new set of tariff rules that may make it harder to fend off low-cost imports from China and other foreign countries.

European Union governments are due on Monday to rubber-stamp the biggest revamp of the bloc’s method for calculating duties aimed at countering below-cost — or “dumped” — imports. The move is a response to longstanding Chinese government demands for more favorable treatment while stopping short of saying those shipments are fairly priced.

The overhaul will end an EU presumption that Chinese exporters and those in nine other members of the World