Brussels-based Fertilizers Europe plans to file an appeal to the European Court of Justice challenging the EU General Court’s judgement that annulled the existing EU anti-dumping measures on ammonium nitrate (AN) imports originating from Russia, the industry group said in a July 19 statement.
The EU General Court issued its judgement on July 5 (GM July 7, p. 24) after studying a suit filed by AO Nevinnomyssky Azot and AO Novomoskovskaya Azot, both subsidiaries of EuroChem Group AG. The Court’s decision overturned the European Commission’s December 2020 ruling to extend the anti-dumping duty on Russian AN for five years (GM Dec. 18, 2020).
Following its judgement, the EU General Court ordered the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Nevinnomyssky Azot and Novomoskovskaya Azot. Fertilizers Europe was also ordered to pay its own costs.