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

USA’s disinterest in appointing new members to the DSB Appellate Body, has ensured the reduction of the WTO Appellate Body to a single member body. The present article discusses the impact of absence of WTO’s Appellate Body on pending appeals and towards the efficacy of WTO. The author contemplates that the dispute settlement body will continue to work although in the absence of an appellate body, any appeal will render the panel process futile.

WTO Panel has held that certain Indian export promotion schemes violate the provisions of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is slated for conclusion by November 2019. However, from India’s perspective, several issues like Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Rules of Origin and the proposed Auto-Trigger and Snapback Safeguard Mechanism under the trade remedies, remain unresolved.

Article 5 of Agreement on Safeguards stresses that a Member shall apply safeguard measures only to the extent necessary to prevent or remedy serious injury and to ‘facilitate adjustment’.

SEZs whether eligible constituent of “Domestic Industry” under Indian trade remedial laws? By Vikram Agarwal and Greetika Francis The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus del

Anti-dumping duty on imports of certain rubber chemicals - A Catch-22 situation for Designated Authority By Neeraj Chhabra Gujarat High Court has recently in the case of NOCIL Ltd. directe

One by one, till there are none: The continuing saga of the Appellate Body By Jayant Raghu Ram The article in this issue of International Trade Amicus discusses the

Consequence of non-participation by India in CVD investigations conducted by USA By Bhargav Mansatta Government of the exporting country is also required to file response to the questionnaire issu

All is fair in trade and war – Panel Ruling on interpretation of security exceptions in Russia-Traffic in Transit By Jayant Raghu Ram The WTO recently circulated the Panel report in Russia &n