From Reuters:
Vietnam has launched its first dispute at the World Trade Organisation with a case against U.S. anti-dumping measures on its key exports of shrimp.
The communist state only joined the global trade arbiter three years ago, and its economy like China's has benefited strongly from membership in the world trading system and its rules.
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No one was available for comment at Vietnam's mission to the WTO, and details of the dispute were not immediately clear.
But Vietnamese shrimp exporters have complained in the past about the controversial U.S. method of calculating anti-dumping duties known as zeroing, which has been condemned repeatedly by WTO courts and rejected by all other WTO members.
Vietnam became a WTO Member in January 2007. I'm curious: What's the average time after accession that a GATT Contracting Party/WTO Member brings its first complaint, or is first subject to a complaint? I wonder if anyone has researched this.
