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Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) — The European Union threatened to renew tariffs on Dow Chemical Co. and other U.S. makers of ethanolamines, a chemical used for detergents and textiles Watches Replica, to limit competition for EU producers including BASF SE.

The EU said it would review whether to let lapse the duties of as much as 111.25 euros ($144.60) a metric ton on imports from the U.S. of the product, also used for herbicides and cement. The 12-year-old levies punish U.S. exporters for selling ethanolamines in Europe below cost, a practice known as dumping.

The current anti-dumping duties have been in force since mid-2000 and were last renewed for two years in January 2010. The levies range from 59.25 euros a ton for Dow Chemical to 111.25 euros a ton for manufacturers including Huntsman Corp.

The review “will determine whether the expiry of the measures would be likely, or unlikely, to lead to a continuation of dumping and a continuation of injury,” the European Commission, the 27-nation EU’s trade authority in Brussels, said on Jan. 21 in the Official Journal. The duties were due to expire today and will now stay in place during the probe, which can last as long as 15 months.

BASF, Sasol Germany GmbH and Ineos Europe AG, which account for more than half the EU’s production of ethanolamines, filed a request on Oct. 21 for the expiry review, according to the commission. The companies argued that an end of the duties would probably lead to further dumping by U.S. competitors and injury to the European industry, the commission said.

Market Share

The U.S. share of the EU ethanolamine market dropped to 14 percent in the 12 months through September 2008 from almost 24 percent in 2005, the bloc said when renewing the anti-dumping duties two years ago. The combined European market share of other exporting countries including Russia, Mexico, Iran and Taiwan rose to more than 7 percent from about 4 percent over the period, the EU said.

A different form of EU anti-dumping duties on U.S. ethanolamines existed in the 1990s. The bloc introduced variable levies based on minimum sales prices in 1994 and switched to the current fixed-rate tariffs as part of a July 2000 decision to maintain anti-dumping protection for five more years.

When the duties were due to lapse in July 2005, the EU began an expiration investigation that led to an initial two- year extension in October 2006. The subsequent two-year renewal in January 2010 followed a 15-month probe that prevented the levies from lapsing as previously scheduled in October 2008. The two-year renewals were a concession to the U.S. industry and European ethanolamine users because the EU normally extends such measures for five years.

–Editors: Jennifer M. Freedman, Eddie Buckle

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By Christos Ziotis and Maria Petrakis

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — EFG Eurobank Ergasias SA and Alpha Bank SA, Greece’s second and third-biggest banks, plan to merge to become the country’s biggest lender Watches Replica, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

The boards of both institutions will meet to approve the terms of the friendly deal on Aug. 29, one of the people said, declining to be named. The meetings, and plans for a news conference at 2 p.m. that day, were confirmed by the other person.

The team-up between the two lenders would create Greece’s biggest bank with assets of 150 billion euros ($217 billion), more than 2,000 branches and about 80 billion euros in deposits. Qatar private investors who already have a stake in Alpha will participate in the new entity, according to one person. Chairman of the new lender will be Yannis Costopoulos, the present chairman of Alpha Bank, one person said.

Alpha Bank and Eurobank have lost at least 92 percent in Athens trading since the start of 2008 as the global financial crisis and Greece’s debt woes eroded the value of the businesses. The two Athens-based banks ended this week with a combined market capitalization of almost 2 billion euros Watches Replica, according to Bloomberg data, down from about 23 billion euros at the end of 2007.

Eurobank Deputy Chief Executive Nikolaos Karamouzis and George Aronis, a general manager at Alpha and member of the board, declined to comment on the report.

Shares in Alpha have plummeted 50 percent this year while Eurobank’s stock has dropped 54 percent as Greece received a second bailout from its European Union partners. Alpha Bank fell 26 percent this week to 1.9 euros and Eurobank declined 22 percent in the five days to 1.73 euros.

Bank Mergers

The government and the country’s central bank chief George Provopoulos are pushing the country’s banks to combine after their capital was depleted by the sovereign debt crisis and mounting loan losses, arguing that fewer and stronger banks can ride out the crisis, and extend loans to businesses and households to get credit flowing through to the economy again.

Greece’s banks were weakened as the debt crisis led to a slump in bond prices, a shrinking economy and forced the industry to turn to emergency funding from the ECB. With the country in a third year of recession and the government receiving a second bailout to avert default, Greece’s lenders face increasing loan losses.

National Bank of Greece SA, the nation’s largest lender, made an unsolicited 2.8 billion-euro offer for Alpha in February in a bid to create a stronger banking group that would cut its reliance on emergency funding from the European Central Bank,. Alpha spurned that approach.

–With assistance from Paul Tugwell in Athens and Alexis Xydias in London. Editors: Guy Collins, Michael Harrison

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