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Using RTAs to Reduce Trade Remedies

Tania Voon has posted a working paper entitled “Eliminating Trade Remedies from the WTO: Lessons from Regional Trade Agreements” on SSRN. Some key excerpts:[This paper] explores RTAs as positive models to reduce or eliminate the use of trade remedies among WTO Members, providing a concrete case study of the

Concurrent AD/CVD Investigations by DOC in the NME Context

Yes, I know, that's a lot of acronyms in the post title! Those who read my previous post on this topic may have noticed that I buried the NME issues towards the end. You may have suspected that was because I wasn't quite sure what to

More on the AD/CVD Overlap

I promised a litte while ago that I would offer a bit of substance on the issue of concurrent AD/CVD investigations and "double remedies." It's a complicated issue, so anyone working on these cases who knows more than I do should feel free to point

Dual Cases on Dual Remedies

A while back, I did a post about the issue of "dual remedies" in relation to anti-dumping and countervailing duties, focusing on the DS379 WTO dispute. ("Dual remedies" might not be the best term, but that's what I used last time, so I'

What Is Section 421?

Am placing here, as a new post, part of a comment that otherwise would have been stuck under the wrong heading (antidumping). At issue was a piece in The Economist about the Tires 421 result. What I found interesting in the Economist piece is that it stopped short of what

Is Dumping "Against International Trade Rules"?

I'm feeling nit-picky again today. In an article criticizing the U.S. tariffs on Chinese tires, the Economist writes: Even now Mr Obama insists he is “committed to pursuing expanded trade and new trade agreements”, and this week he defended his action as nothing more than the enforcement

Commerce Finds Subsidies in First CVD Action Against Vietnam

The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued a preliminary determination in the first U.S. countervailing duty (CVD) action lodged against <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam. (74 Fed. Reg. 45811, Sep. 4, 2009) The action relates </st1:country-region>to imports of polyethylene

Yet More on Solar Panel Dumping

As a follow up on these two posts, The Australian reports the following: THE Coalition has called for an urgent investigation into the potential dumping of cut-price Chinese solar panels into Australia, which threatens to undermine a fledgling domestic solar power industry.Federal opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt wrote to

Mutual Assured Dumping

The AFP mentions the following interesting fact in relation to the WTO complaint by China against EU anti-dumping duties on fasteners (e.g., screws and bolts): In one of the biggest anti-dumping cases against China, the EU decided after an investigation to impose levies on imports of some Chinese fasteners,

Russian Worries about Anti-Dumping Actions

From Reuters: Steel makers in Russia, the world's fourth-largest producer, have suffered from a decline in orders from the construction and automotive sectors as the global economic slowdown cuts demand. In response they have boosted exports, though this has led to a growing threat of tariffs and other