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: December 2022
The WTO Panel has recently held that USA’s additional duties of 25% ad valorem on imports of steel products and 10% ad valorem on imports of aluminium products are inconsistent with various provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (‘GATT’), ...
Read More 01 Dec 2022
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International Trade Amicus: September 2022
Recently the Gujarat High Court in the case Real Strips v. Union of India had an occasion to decide the nature of powers exercised by the Ministry of Finance in deciding the imposition of countervailing duty.
Read More 09 Nov 2022
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International Trade Amicus: August 2022
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus discusses elaborately the concept of reference-price based anti-dumping duty (‘ADD’). The author first explains the basic working of a reference-price based duty in the Indian context by way of an example.
Read More 09 Nov 2022
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International Trade Amicus: July 2022
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus discusses the chapter on government procurement in the India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, which is India’s first such market access agreement (i.e., with government procurement chapter) with any country.
Read More 07 Nov 2022
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International Trade Amicus: June 2022
The WTO recently concluded its 12th Ministerial Conference. Contrary to the pessimistic expectations in the runup to the MC 12, the Conference has delivered a package of decisions which are being hailed as achievements in the WTO’s negotiating history.
Read More 04 Nov 2022
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International Trade Amicus: November 2022
In continuation of the article published last month, shedding light on the nature and extent of Western sanctions, the article in this issue of International Trade Amicus intends to discuss some of the salient aspects of the US sanctions regime as administered by the Office...
Read More 01 Nov 2022
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International Trade Amicus: October 2022
The Ukraine-Russia conflict has brought into focus the use of sanctions as an instrument to penalize. While sanctions as an instrument are well known among political and economic institutions in the West, comparatively little attention has been paid to Western sanctions by businesses in India.
Read More 01 Oct 2022
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International Trade Amicus: May 2022
India recently signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with the United Arab Emirates and the Economic Comprehensive Trade Agreement with Australia. The objective of the article in this issue of International Trade Amicus is to broadly provide an advisory perspective of comprehensive trade agreements for trade and industry in India.
Read More 29 Jun 2022
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International Trade Amicus: April 2022
Article 2.2 of the WTO’s Anti-dumping Agreement allows an investigating authority to reject the domestic selling prices for calculating the normal value in cases where, because of a ‘Particular Market Situation’ (‘PMS’), such domestic sales do not permit a proper comparison with the export price.
Read More 01 Jun 2022
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International Trade Amicus: March 2022
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus discusses a recent decision of the Anti-dumping Bench of the CESTAT which examined the issue as to what is the standard of evidence that is required to be considered by an investigating authority in a sunset review.
Read More 05 May 2022
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International Trade Amicus: February 2022
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus examines the recent Final Findings issued by the DGTR in the Mid-Term Review of countervailing duty on imports of Welded Stainless-Steel Pipes and Tubes (‘product under consideration’, ‘PUC’) from China PR and Vietnam.
Read More 09 Apr 2022
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International Trade Amicus: January 2022
The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus examines the recent Final Findings issued by the DGTR in the Mid-Term Review of countervailing duty on imports of Welded Stainless-Steel Pipes and Tubes (‘product under consideration’, ‘PUC’) from China PR and Vietnam.
Read More 03 Mar 2022