The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) is to reconsider its recommendation to impose a new ‘anti-dumping’ measure on imports of certain excavators from China following requests from LiuGong Group and Caterpillar.
Last year, the secretary of state for business and trade imposed tariffs on excavators imported from China to the UK of up to 40% following the TRA’s recommendation.
The recommendation followed an investigation by British construction equipment manufacturer JCB, claiming that heavily state-subsidised Chinese manufacturers have increasingly targeted the UK market with cut-price excavators.
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