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"en.20140205.49.3-396-000"2
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"The Commission’s Modernisation of Trade Defence Instruments (MTDI) package will revise existing EU anti-dumping and anti-subsidy regulations, including a number of non-regulatory changes. Coming from a constituency in which small and medium-sized enterprises form the backbone of the local economy, I am supportive of moves to ensure that SMEs in Northern Ireland can benefit from increased access to EU trade defence tools. For too long, initiating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations has been the sole preserve of large companies that can afford them. This report, and amendments to it, makes several useful proposals in terms of more assistance to SMEs in the form of a helpdesk, and the ability of sectors largely made up of SMEs to impose higher duties on imports of dumped and subsidised goods. Nevertheless, I believe the report is ultimately an imbalanced one due to some less useful proposals. For instance, I cannot support the proposed limitations on the use of the Lesser Duty Rule, which would excessively increase the level of duties imposed. Moreover, the proposals would grant the European Commission greater ex-officio powers to counter tit-for-tat retaliation, which are both ineffective and counterproductive if industry has not lodged a complaint."@en1
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