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The Shortest WTO Dispute Written Submission Ever

It's the U.S. first written submission in the U.S. - AD Measures on Carrier Bags (DS383) case, related to zeroing. It's five paragraphs long. Here's the fifth and final paragraph: 5. The United States acknowledges the accuracy of Thailand’s description of the

Chinese Tire Tariffs: A Panel Has Been Requested

I have not seen much written about the U.S. tariffs on Chinese tires since the consultations request was filed. We are now on to the next stage, though, as China has just filed its panel request. At first glance, the main differences between the requests are that the panel

Will The U.S. Challenge Foreign Trade Remedies At the WTO?

Reuters reports: "It is unfortunate that China decided to impose provisional countervailing duties on imports of grain oriented electrical steel (GOES) from the United States," said Carol Guthrie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade Representative's office. "We do not believe that the imports in

The Byrd Amendment: Not Dead Yet

But it won't last much longer: La-Z-Boy has received $3 million from the U.S. government in antidumping duties and will report the income on its fiscal third quarter statement, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. La-Z-Boy is

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