AlQa'dah 17, 1433, Oct 3, 2012, SPA -- The European Union is weighing whether to act against Chinese telecommunication companies as part of yet another probe into subsidy concerns, but the bloc's top trade official insisted on Wednesday that Beijing is not being made a scapegoat, AP reported. Tensions between the two sides ratcheted up in September, when the EU launched an investigation into whether Chinese solar producers have been illegally undercutting prices on the European market - the bloc's largest-ever anti-dumping case in terms of import value. The EU has in the past already slapped anti-dumping fines on products such as paper and tiles from China. But the telecommunication case - which involves suspicion that Chinese companies are being illegally subsidized - would break new ground because it would be the first time the European Commission, the EU's executive, acts without being first asked by EU firms. -- SPA
