The World Trade Organization recently posted the following notices:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Nov. 17 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Nov. 15 (some may also be given separate headlines):
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted:
A World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel on Nov. 14, issued a mixed ruling in a case that South Korea brought in 2015 against U.S. antidumping duties on oil country tubular goods, according to a summary of the panel's findings. The panel ruled against the Commerce Department’s “profit determination” used to calculate the dumping margin and duty rates on OCTG imports in a 2014 final determination (see 14090919), the WTO said. But the panel also rejected more than a dozen more Korean claims, including that U.S. laws on the calculation of normal value in AD investigations were inconsistent with WTO rules. South Korea requested a WTO dispute panel to review the matter in March 2015 (see 1503130070). "The United States appreciates the panel’s rejection of nearly all of Korea’s claims related to the Department of Commerce’s antidumping duty determination on OCTG,” a U.S. official said in an email. “We are disappointed, however, with some of the panel’s findings that the United States acted, in limited respects, inconsistently with the [WTO] Antidumping Agreement. The United States is carefully reviewing the report and considering next steps.” South Korea didn’t comment on whether it would appeal any parts of the ruling.
As the deadlines for the U.S.’s Section 232 investigations into steel and aluminum imports loom two months away, several World Trade Organization members expressed concern during a Nov. 10 meeting that affirmative findings could result in trade restrictions or retaliation, a Geneva trade official said Nov. 13. Among the attendees at the Nov. 10 meeting of the WTO Council for Trade in Goods, China said the U.S. should avoid “triggering a surge of trade barriers and refrain from negatively affecting the flow of international trade,” while the EU said it would be the most affected WTO member if Canada and Mexico were exempted from any action. Australia said the investigations should be consistent with international trade rules, lest unjustified measures spark “retaliatory measures,” the trade source said.
The World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The World Trade Organization recently posted the following notices:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Nov. 13 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: