Judgment_paragraph 1 · Euroalliages, Pechiney électrométallurgie, Vargön Alloys AB and Ferroatlántica, SL v Commission of the European Communities (T-132/01)

1Antidumping measures have been imposed in respect of imports of ferrosilicon originating in certain nonmember countries since the early 1980s. Measures relating to imports originating in Venezuela were introduced in 1983. Imports originating in Brazil and the Soviet Union were the subject of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2409/87 of 6 August 1987 imposing a provisional antidumping duty on imports of ferrosilicon originating in Brazil and accepting undertakings offered by Italmagnésio SA of Brazil and from Promsyrio-Import of the USSR (OJ 1987 L 219, p. 24). The Council imposed a definitive antidumping duty on imports of ferrosilicon originating in Brazil by Regulation (EEC) No 3650/87 (OJ 1987 L 343, p. 1). In February 1990 the Council, by Regulation (EEC) No 341/90 (OJ 1990 L 38, p. 1), accepted undertakings and imposed a definitive antidumping duty on imports of ferrosilicon originating in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Venezuela or Yugoslavia, except those sold for export to the Community by companies whose undertakings had been accepted. Those measures were supplemented and extended by Council Regulation (EC) No 3359/93 of 2 December 1993 amending antidumping measures on imports of ferrosilicon originating in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Venezuela and Brazil (OJ 1993 L 302, p. 1). The measures imposed on imports from Iceland, Norway and Sweden were suspended from 1 January 1994 by Council Regulation (EC) No 5/94 of 22 December 1993 on the suspension of the antidumping measures against EFTA countries (OJ 1994 L 3, p. 1).