EU Anti-Dumping Measures on India: Which Sectors Are at Risk

EU trade defence instruments — anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties, and safeguard measures — are legal under WTO rules and are increasingly used by the EU to protect domestic industry. For Indian exporters, EU anti-dumping measures represent an additional duty burden on top of MFN tariffs.

Current EU anti-dumping measures on Indian goods as of 2026: Stainless steel bars and rods: ADD of 10-19%. Citric acid: ADD subject to ongoing WTO dispute. Monoethylene glycol: ADD. Certain carbon steel pipe fittings: ADD. Ceramic tiles: ongoing investigation on specific tile types. These measures are product and producer specific — Indian exporters should check EU TARIC for their exact HS code before assuming they face ADD.

How Indian exporters can respond to anti-dumping investigations: Register as interested party when investigation is initiated. Complete Commission questionnaires demonstrating that your prices reflect genuine costs not dumping. Request hearing with the Commission. Submit economic arguments. Individual companies receiving individual dumping margins through good cooperation can obtain rates significantly lower than the all-others residual rate.

India-EU FTA and trade defence: India-EU FTA will not automatically eliminate anti-dumping measures — these are treated separately from tariff concessions. The FTA bilateral safeguard mechanism may partly substitute for ADD in some sectors. A trade defence dialogue mechanism will be included in the FTA for bilateral coordination.