International Trade Amicus

International Trade Amicus covers developments in the field of international trade remedy laws. It includes trade remedies like anti-dumping duty, safeguard duty and countervailing duty investigations and impositions, by and against, India. News pertaining to major developments in the World Trade Organization (WTO), India’s Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and investment-related disputes, are also covered, along with summaries of case law from different jurisdictions on topics pertaining to the subject.

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International Trade Amicus: October 2016
Law as enshrined in Article 2.4.2 of the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of GATT 1994 permits use of an alternative methodology for computation of the dumping margin if there is targeted dumping.
Read More 08 Dec 2016
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International Trade Amicus: December 2016
Specific provisions of Section 15 of the Protocol of Accession of China to the WTO expired on 11th December, 2016.
Read More 01 Dec 2016
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International Trade Amicus: September 2016
Article 9 of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement provides for the possibility to limit the amount of duty that can be applied to remedy dumping.
Read More 09 Nov 2016
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International Trade Amicus: August 2016
The Indian authorities have recently recommended discontinuation of anti-dumping duty in respect of two products, finding absence of causal link.
Read More 08 Nov 2016
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International Trade Amicus: November 2016
Article VI:5 of GATT prevents a situation of double remedy/compensation for the “same situation” of “dumping” or “export subsidization” in relation to concurrent Anti-dumping and Countervailing duty investigations.
Read More 01 Nov 2016
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International Trade Amicus: July 2016
United Kingdom has decided by referendum to leave the European Union and once it officially pulls out, UK will have to establish its own tariffs and trade relations with the EU and third countries such as India.
Read More 03 Sept 2016
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International Trade Amicus: June 2016
Market economy status for China, in the backdrop of ongoing crisis in the steel industry, is the topic of discussion in the Article in this issue.
Read More 26 Jul 2016
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International Trade Amicus: May 2016
Recent WTO discussions have centered on the question of China’s entitlement to Market Economy Status (MES) post 11th December, 2016.
Read More 21 Jul 2016
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International Trade Amicus: April 2016
United States maintains a licensing mechanism known as the Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) System, according to which any business importing steel mill products covered under the licensing program is required to procure a license.
Read More 04 Jun 2016
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International Trade Amicus: March 2016
Disclosure of information by the Designated Authority in an anti-dumping investigation is regulated to a large extent by Rule 6(7) as well as Rule 7 of the Anti-dumping Rules.
Read More 05 May 2016
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International Trade Amicus: February 2016
Since 2001 when China joined the WTO, it has been treated as a non-market economy country. Because of the non-market economy treatment, in most anti-dumping investigations, China’s domestic cost and selling price are not considered by the investigating authorities.
Read More 05 Apr 2016
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International Trade Amicus: January 2016
The need for determination of the domestic industry comes at the stage of initiation of an investigation.
Read More 03 Apr 2016