INDONESIA CHALLENGES EU ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES ON FATTY ALCOHOLS

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August 24, 2012

JAKARTA - Indonesia has launched a complaint to the World Trade Organisation over EU anti-dumping measures on oleochemicals, or fatty alcohols. Oleochemical exports from Indonesia are almost all derived from palm oil. The European Commission passed a regulation in November 2011 to impose anti-dumping duties on certain fatty alcohols and their blends originating in India, Indonesia and Malaysia. It claimed that the three countries were exporting fatty alcohols at costs below production or the domestic sales price.