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"We Swedish Social Democrats do not believe that the Community should prolong its aid to shipbuilding, or introduce new forms of such aid, in order to protect its shipbuilding industry against South Korea.
The European Union’s shipbuilding industry is in a serious situation, since the manufacture of certain vessels has been struck a serious blow due to disloyal competition from South Korea. South Korean shipyards have practised dumping with regard to the manufacture of gas tankers through having different prices on the domestic and export markets. Prices on the export market have been 25% to 30% lower. On the other hand, the EU has withdrawn aid from its shipbuilding industry, leading to limited production capacity and social problems.
Sweden abolished these forms of aid some years ago. We therefore have our doubts about reintroducing them. We are generally opposed to this type of state aid, but understand the concern caused by unfair competition on the part of South Korea. We believe that issues of this kind must be dealt with within the WTO in the context of its dispute settlement procedure. The EU’s restoring or prolonging state aid to certain vessels would not help. Instead, it would only be in danger of further distorting the market mechanisms.
In the light of these considerations, we Social Democrats in the European Parliament are voting against all forms of state aid to the shipbuilding industry. We do not believe that such aid should be promoted and are therefore voting against the whole report."@en1
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