anti-dumping action

The ruling moves to limit the ability of foreign companies to file anti-dumping actions.

An anti-dumping action last year by the Federal Government helped to push up the price of foreign-made ball-bearings.

However, implementation of anti-dumping actions (trade defence actions) is taken after voting by various committees with member state representation.

As is implied by the criterion for beginning an investigation, EU anti-dumping actions are primarily considered part of a "trade defence" portfolio.

"There is no question in my view," said Robert J. Morris, the council's senior vice president, "that anti-dumping actions have become the protectionist measure of choice."

Its focus is on how governments can or cannot react to dumping - it disciplines anti-dumping actions, and it is often called the "anti-dumping agreement".

Canada's Minister of Trade, Michael Wilson, spoke out against "the counterproductive nature of both countries taking anti-dumping action against imports from each other."

Used Against West But some Asian nations, including South Korea, are pressing their own anti-dumping actions against Western companies.

The agreement says member countries must inform the Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices about all preliminary and final anti-dumping actions, promptly and in detail.

The bureaucratic entity responsible for advising member states on anti-dumping actions is the Directorate General Trade (DG Trade), based in Brussels.

The dismissal makes it much more difficult for foreign companies to file an anti-dumping action, because it establishes such a high threshold for proving that a company is a domestic producer.

After 11 years of fighting this and other anti-dumping actions filed by Smith Corona, Brother responded in April by filing a similar petition of its own with the Commerce Department.

The Commerce Department moved today to limit the ability of foreign companies to file anti-dumping actions in the United States, dismissing a Japanese company's complaint that its Tennessee plant had been hurt by imports.

Mr. Artzt acknowledges that the catalyst for Barilla's decision to go full speed ahead on plans to make pasta in America was the anti-dumping action, which he called "an example of what happens when protectionism starts backfiring."

We have to be very careful that we assess precisely not only what the effect on the Community interest is, but what the impact would be if we were to take anti-dumping action on a variety of different producers and economic operators in this sector.

And the sole purpose of a bilateral, as opposed to a multilateral or international trade negotiation, was to somehow gain secure access to the American market, as opposed to access that could be unilaterally impeded by trade remedy laws and countervailing and anti-dumping actions.