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Laos Now Able to Impose Antidumping Penalties
July 22, 2019 |Asia Pacific

Laos adopted a “legal framework” through new legislation that will allow it in the future to impose antidumping or countervailing penalties on imports, according to a July 17 report from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Previously, any “punitive recourse” for product dumping had “not been legally deliverable.” No product list has been developed.

WTO Rules Against US CVD Calculations in 17 Cases on Chinese Imports
July 17, 2019 |World Trade Organization

The U.S. lost its appeal of a 2018 World Trade Organization decision that it had not properly calculated countervailing duties for Chinese pipes, tubular goods, solar panels, aluminum extrusions and other items. China had originally challenged the cases in 2016 -- the cases were brought between 2007 and 2012 (see 1805010071). The earlier ruling held that the U.S. was right to say that Chinese state-owned enterprises count as "public bodies" and therefore their actions can be market distorting. The appeal upheld that element of the case, but also upheld the victories for China. The WTO said that Commerce did not prove specificity in the subsidies for the products, and it also could not show how the SOE inputs distorted market prices. It was not allowed to use other countries' prices as reference points to prove market distortions, the WTO said, unless it had specific evidence that government interference in the market warranted that. The appeal said that countries' ability to use other countries' prices in CVD cases is "very limited."

EU to Extend Trade Defense Rules to Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zones
July 5, 2019 |Europe

The EU plans to extend its antidumping and countervailing duty collections to the continental shelf and exclusive economic zones of the member states, the European Commission said in a July 3 news release. "Until now, EU customs rules only allowed trade defence measures to be applied to goods imported into the customs territory of the Union," it said. "The rules did not apply to goods brought to the continental shelf or exclusive economic zones of EU Member States, for instance for the exploitation of natural resources such as extraction of oil and gas and off-shore windmills." The new regulations are aligned with major EU trading partners, including the U.S., India and Brazil, it said. Exclusive economic zones are sea zones "over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources" and can be beyond a state's territorial waters, it said. The continental shelf is "the shelf extending from the coastline of the state to a drop-off point in the ocean," the EC said. The EU member states will have four months to "put in place the necessary administrative procedures," the EC said.