Author: Ojasvi Nautiyal, Legal Associate India and Australia signed the Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) on 2nd April 2022, which is an interim trade agreement to boost trade, before the two nations agree on a more comprehensive economic trade agreement. India and Australia commenced negotiations in 2010 for a trade agreement covering trade in […]

Authors: Nihit Gupta, Joint Partner Production Linked Incentive (also known as PLI) is a government initiative launched in March of 2020, to encourage investment from foreign and domestic companies and to create more employment. The idea behind the scheme is relatively simple: To boost India’s manufacturing capabilities To decrease reliance on imports To enhance export-oriented […]

Author: Nishtha Gupta, Business Analyst Just as the world was recovering from the effects of the pandemic and the world-wide lockdowns that completely disrupted the global economy and supply chain, Russian military’s aggression towards Ukraine has again upset the global economy. On 24th February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military operation in eastern […]

Author: Kalpesh Gupta, Senior Consultant The modern era of international trade is one of the increasingly complex interactions between countries. Supply chains have crossed countries and regions. Naturally, the buying decisions of consumers depend on their final cost of procurement, when sourcing from the domestic suppliers, and when importing into India. One of the elements […]

Author: Ojasvi Nautiyal, Legal Associate The Ministry of Finance on 8th December 2021 issued an Office Memorandum stating its decision not to impose anti-dumping duty recommended by the DGTR on imports of Caprolactam from European Union, Korea RP, Russia and Thailand. The DGTR had issued its final findings on 27th September 2021 pursuant to a […]

Anand Nandakumar and Dhanya P.K., Associates The WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement mandates that an investigating authority should calculate individual dumping margins for all cooperative producers/exporters from the subject country. However, in investigations where there are a large number of cooperative producers/exporters, calculating individual dumping margins for each of them may not be feasible. In such exceptional […]