EU acts against unfairly subsidised optical fibre cables from India

The measures aim to protect from unfair trading practices the EU’s optical fibre cable industry, which employs over 5,000 people across the European Union and is crucial for advancing our digital agenda. 

Today’s countervailing measures were imposed after an anti-subsidy investigation found that unfairly subsidised imports from India were harming EU producers. The duties come on top of anti-dumping measures on optical fibre cables from India, as well as both anti-dumping and countervailing measures on the same product from China. 

Optical fibre cables make high-speed internet possible and as such are critical for the EU’s transition to advanced electronic communications. The European optical fibre cable industry has a key role to play in the implementation of the EU’s digital agenda. The measures imposed today, as well as the previously imposed ones, aim to ensure that the EU optical fibre industry is not weakened by unfair trading practices and that it can continue to compete on an equal footing.

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