Author: Ojasvi Nautiyal, Senior Associate and Kanika Kapoor, Associate Following the review meeting held by the WTO Trade Policy Review Body on 17th and 19th July 2024, the WTO issued its ninth trade policy review report with respect to the trade policy and practices of China. The last review report for China was issued in […]

Authors: Aastha Gupta, Joint Partner, and Saniya Shreevastava, Associate In August 2023, the WTO panel issued its report in a dispute brought by the United States concerning the consistency of additional duties imposed by China in retaliation to the US Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium products. The panel found that China’s imposition of […]

Authors: Aastha Gupta, Joint Partner And Nishtha Gupta, Business Analyst Under the WTO Agreement, any exemption of import duties on raw materials used for exported goods shall not be considered as conferring a countervailable benefit, provided the government of exporting country has a system in place to ensure that no excess benefit accrues to the […]

Authors – Aastha Gupta, Joint Partner and Nishtha Gupta, Business Analyst. On 11th April 2023, the WTO Secretariat published its trade policy review of the European Union (EU). The Trade Policy Review Mechanism requires a periodic review of the trade policy and practices of WTO members to examine its adherence to the WTO commitments. This […]

Saudi Arabia became a member of the WTO in 2005. In its effort to adapt its laws to be compatible with the WTO Agreements, the Common Law on Anti-Dumping, Countervailing and Safeguard Measures (“Common Law”) was enacted. However, the same was not done at individual country level, but for GCC as a whole. This law, […]

In an anti-dumping investigation, the dumping margin for an exporter is normally determined as the difference between the selling price of the goods in the home market of such exporter, referred to as normal value, and the export price of the exporter to the investigating country. However, the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement lays down three situations […]