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November 1, 2013 by PKR

China Challenges EU Compliance With WTO Fasteners Ruling

The People’s Republic of China this week requested consultations with the European Union to resolve a longstanding trade dispute over the assessment of antidumping duties on Chinese iron and steel fasteners.  According to China, the EU has not complied with the July 2011 WTO Appellate Body (AB) ruling that found the EU to have violated its […]

Filed Under: International Trade Tagged With: antidumping, China, EU, International Trade, nails trade, nonmarket economy, seafood trade, Vietnam, WTO, zeroing

May 1, 2013 by PKR

WTO Begins to Address Corruption in Government Procurement

Last month the parties to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) adopted non-binding revisions that incorporate anti-corruption provisions into the GPA. These revisions will become binding if at least ten of the current fifteen parties ratify them. On a globally-derived average, corruption increases the price of government procurement contracts by twenty […]

Filed Under: Foreign Investment, Incentives & Barriers, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: corruption, procurement, WTO

March 15, 2013 by PKR

Federal Circuit Hears Trio of Trade Cases

On March 7, 2013, three separate three-judge panels of the Federal Circuit conducted oral argument on important international trade cases. Union Steel v. United States is the latest in the long line of challenges to the “zeroing” methodology in which the Department of Commerce calculates antidumping duty (AD) dumping margins without offsetting sales above normal […]

Filed Under: International Trade Tagged With: antidumping, CAFC, Canada, China, CIT, International Trade, lumber, SLA, USTR, WTO, zeroing

March 7, 2012 by PKR

Congress Responds to GPX Int’l Tire Corp. v. United States

The Senate and House this week passed identical bills to overturn the December 2011 Federal Circuit decision holding that the Commerce Department cannot impose countervailing duties on imports from non-market economies. PKR attorney Jordan Kahn wrote an article describing this development for the Winter 2012 Customs and International Trade Bar Association Newsletter.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: antidumping, CAFC, China, CIT, countervailing duty, International Trade, nonmarket economy, WTO

February 26, 2010 by PKR

Yocis Serves as Panelist at Georgetown University’s 2010 International Trade Update

David A. Yocis, Counsel at Picard Kentz & Rowe, was a member of the “Key Subsidies Developments” expert panel at the at Georgetown University Law Center’s 2010 International Trade Update program on February 26, 2010. David was commenting on his paper entitled, “Subsidy Discipline in the Time of Bailouts.” The paper examines the role of subsidies […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: countervailing duty, International Trade, WTO

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