Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest • Volume 7 • Number 16 • 7th May 2003
Anti-Dumping Probes On The Decline
The WTO Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices met from 1-2 May to review Members’ anti-dumping (AD) legislation, and the Secretariat released information on WTO Members’ use of AD investigations. The Committee reviewed the legislation from China, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, the EC, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan and Zimbabwe. The US and Korea raised concerns regarding the EU’s extension of anti-dumping duties the new EU member states, urging that the EU first conduct a review. The EU responded that while the existing AD measures would apply in the expanded EU-25, any party with an interest could apply for a review on a case-by-case basis. In conjunction with the Committee meeting, the Secretariat released data on WTO Members’ use of AD investigations, noting a decline in 2002 as compared with 2001. 149 investigations were launched during the second half of 2002, with Chinese exports attracting the largest number of investigations. India initiated the largest number of investigations, 54, followed by Thailand, the US and Australia with 14 or 13 investigations. The largest number of investigations involved the base metal sector, although the chemicals sector was almost as heavily investigated, and a significant number of probes were carried out in the plastics sector as well. The information comes from the Members’ semi-annual reports on AD, which can be accessed at http://docsonline.wto.org (document series G/ADP/N/98).
The next meeting of the AD Committee is scheduled for 23 October this year.
ICTSD reporting; "WTO Secretariat reports significant decline in new anti-dumping investigations," WTO PRESS RELEASE, 2 May 2003.