WTO Reports Decline in Number of New Final Antidumping Measures in 2004
The Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) reported today that in the first half of 2004 52 new final antidumping measures were imposed against exports from 24 countries, a significant decline from the 114 measures imposed during the first half of 2003. The European Union, India and the United States imposed the most new final measures, 6 each, during the first half of 2004. Canada imposed five final antidumping measures during the period and China, Peru and Turkey each imposed four final antidumping measures.
Exports from China were once more the subject of the largest number of new final measures (16) during the first half 2004, down slightly from the 18 measures imposed against Chinese exports during the same period in 2003.
The largest number of new final measures were imposed on products classified in the base metals sector of the Harmonized System of Tariff Classification, which includes iron, steel and aluminium products, with 19 new final measures imposed on products in that sector. Chemicals was the second most affected sector, with 12 new measures imposed.
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