China has persuaded the European Commission to cut estimates of its spare steel capacity, EU documents seen by Reuters show, raising concerns in Europe that Brussels may be weakening its hand against cheap Chinese imports.
A sequence of drafts of proposals to protect Europe's still shrinking steel industry, to be published by the EU executive on Wednesday, shows estimates of Chinese over-capacity -- a factor that can help support a case that firms are unfairly "dumping" product abroad -- being revised down by close to 20 percent.
That revision, from 400 million tonnes in a draft early this month to 350 million and then 325 million in the most recent draft seen by Reuters, was the result of Chinese complaints, said an EU official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"The figures were revised after China challenged our data," the official said after negotiators met in Beijing last week.
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