The WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement A Commentary [Hardcover]

The book provides an analytical overview of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement. The Anti-Dumping Agreement is often perceived as being the most technical and most controversial WTO agreement. The book explains both basic concepts and more advanced interpretations by leading WTO members in a relatively non-technical manner.


Introduction
1. Dumping
1.1. The Like Product
1.2. Export Price
1.3. Normal Value
1.4. Fair Comparison
2. Injury
2.1. The Like Product
2.2. The Domestic Industry
2.3. Material Injury
2.4. Causation
2.5. Threat of Material Injury
3. Procedures
3.1. Initiation
3.2. The Investigation
3.3. Measures
3.4. Retroactivity
3.5. Reviews
3.6. Public Notice Requirements
3.7. Judicial Review
3.8. Third Country Dumping
3.9. Developing Countries
3.10. Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices
3.11. Dispute Settlement
3.12. Final Provisions
4. Conceptual Dispute Settlement Issues
4.1. Exhaustion of local/administrative remedies
4.2. Consultations
4.3. Request for establishment of a panel
4.4. Establishment and composition of panels
4.5. Functions of panels and terms of reference
4.6. Submissions to and meetings with the panel
4.7. Confidentiality
4.8. Burden of Proof
4.9. The Record
4.10. Right to seek information/adverse inferences
4.11. Amicus curiae briefs
4.12. Judicial Economy
4.13. Interim Review
4.14. Recommendations and Suggestions
4.15. Adoption and Implementation
4.16. Systematic Impact
Annex 1 Anti-Dumping Agreement
Annex 2 Article VI GATT 1994
Annex 3 Recommendations Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices [ADP]
Annex 4 Table of WTO ADA dispute settlement cases

A good practical book on anti-dumping...a compilation of meticulous analysis of less and more complex ADA provisions...Vermulst's book comes at the right time. --Dan Horowitz, Chair, Trade and Customs Law Committee, IBA

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