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: November 2020
An important facet of trade remedy investigations, especially, anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations is that if a producer/exporter from the country facing such investigation fully ‘cooperates’, the investigating authority acknowledges this and awards a duty basis the data presented by such party.
Read More 28 Dec 2020
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International Trade Amicus: October 2020
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus discusses at length the provisions relating to Mid-Term Review (‘MTR’) of anti-dumping measures.
Read More 24 Dec 2020
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International Trade Amicus: December 2020
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus intends to provide a brief overview of the legal framework in India and the trend of non-imposition of anti-dumping duty in certain cases.
Read More 01 Dec 2020
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International Trade Amicus: September 2020
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus discusses an interesting proposition which arose in a recent dispute before the WTO’s DSB in the case United States - Tariff Measures on Certain Goods from China (DS543). Relying on Article 12.7 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding (‘DSU’), the United States had requested the Panel to not issue findings regarding the tariffs imposed by the United States on certain Chinese imports.
Read More 03 Nov 2020
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International Trade Amicus: August 2020
The European Union, like India, follows a lesser duty rule in case of anti-dumping investigations as is ‘desirable’ by the WTO’s Anti-Dumping Agreement.
Read More 03 Nov 2020
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International Trade Amicus: July 2020
Significant distortions methodology on imports from China as per Article 2(6a) of the EU’s amended Basic Regulation has been applied by the European Union in three original anti-dumping investigations.
Read More 22 Sept 2020
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International Trade Amicus: June 2020
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus discusses at length the recently introduced provisions of ‘Significant Distortions Methodology’ by the European Union. The author elaborately analysis the few recent expiry reviews by EU wherein the EU authorities...
Read More 22 Sept 2020
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International Trade Amicus: May 2020
To overcome the issue of the alleged expiry of Paragraph 15(a)(ii) of the Chinese Accession Protocol and the probable illegality of the continuation of non-market economy methodology vis-à-vis China, the EU has amended its Basic Anti-dumping Regulation.
Read More 19 Sept 2020
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International Trade Amicus: April 2020
The recommendations and rulings of the WTO’s DSB are preferably to be adopted immediately after the concerned country communicates its intentions to implement them. However, if the same is not possible, the country is granted a ‘reasonable period of time’ for such implementation and subsequent compliance.
Read More 18 Sept 2020
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International Trade Amicus: March 2020
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus analysis recent amendments made in the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Antidumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995 in respect of circumvention provisions relating to anti-dumping duty. Circumvention is a mechanism used by companies to ‘avoid’ duties which are targeted against unfair imports.
Read More 27 May 2020
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International Trade Amicus: February 2020
Finance Bill, 2020 has proposed amendment to the provisions relating to Safeguard duty in order to expand the powers of the Central Government to implement a safeguard measure by the way of a tariff rate quota or any “other safeguard measure” it deems fit. The Tariff Rate Quota regime allows for imports to freely enter the country to fill the demand-supply gap which may exist in the country and on the other hand also protects the domestic industry and its market share by imposing a duty on impor
Read More 17 Apr 2020
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International Trade Amicus: January 2020
Article 2.2 of the WTO’s Anti-dumping Agreement allows the investigating authority of a country to reject domestic prices of the exporting country for the purposes of calculating normal value if the domestic sales of the like product do not permit a proper comparison based on certain factors. The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus discusses at length the recent Panel report of the DSB in the dispute involving imposition of anti-dumping duty by Australia on A4 copy paper from Ind
Read More 12 Mar 2020