Anti-Dumping and Anti-Subsidy Course: Claims, Measures, Stance, Sunset Review and Suspension

By the conclusion of the specified learning and development activities of Anti-Dumping and Anti-Subsidy: Claims, Measures, Stance, Sunset Review and Suspension Course, delegates will be able to:

• Determine the importance of international trade in the global economy
• Specify the role of international trade in economic development, sustainability and growth
• Establish the link between openness and productivity
• Demonstrate a heightened understanding of the provisions of the world trade agreement (WTA) 1994
• Demonstrate a heightened understanding of the establishment of the world trade organization (WTO)
• Determine the scope of the WTO
• Enumerate the functions of the WTO
• Understand the structure of the WTO
• Ascertain the relationship of WTO with other organisations
• Determine the compositions of the WTO Secretariat and its functions
• Talk about budget and contributions
• Obtain important updates with the status of the WTO
• Demonstrate a heightened understanding on how decision-making process is conducted
• Develop awareness of the latest amendments in WTO
• Name who are considered as the original members of WTO
• Describe the rules on accession
• Discuss about the non-application of multilateral trade agreements between particular members
• Know the rules on acceptance, entry into force and deposit
• Cite the rules applicable to withdrawal of membership in WTO and the miscellaneous provisions of WTO
• Relate the establishment of the Uruguay round protocol GATT 1994 and the general agreement on tariffs and trade (GATT)
• Establish the relationship of GATT to environmental policy
• Determine the provisions of WTO on:
• Agriculture
• Sanitary and photo sanitary measures
• Textiles and clothing
• Technical barriers to trade
• Trade-related investment
• Pre-shipment inspection
• Rules of origin
• Import licensing procedures
• Subsidies and countervailing measures
• Government procurement
• Define dumping:
• Enumerate the effects of dumping on the economy of host countries
• Name the effects of dumping on the economy of domestic countries
• List the effects of dumping on the economy of transhipment countries
• Discuss the concept of the patriotism stance: the British flag scenario
• Study some anti-dumping case in selected countries
• View the Europe and world trade directorate
• Determine the result of the European commission’s investigation of allegations of injury to the EU steel industry, caused by subsidised imports from India and Korea
• Demostrate a heightened understanding about the UK trade and investment white paper
• Analyse the analytical support for the trade and investment white paper
• Demonstrate a heightened understanding about the UK’s response to the EU commission’s concern on anti-subsidy
• Obtain significant information about some of the anti-dumping conclusions
• Demonstrate a heightened understanding about the concept of the general agreement on trade in services (GATS)
• Identify the aim of the GATS
• Establish the interrelated nature of GATS and WTO
• Find out how GATS is viewed by the European commission
• Determine the benefits of GATS to businesses
• Enumerate the main points of critique of GATS
• Know whether the developing countries are marginalized by GATS?
• Establish the link between GATS and national security
• Discuss about the international infiltration and national border protection
• Study the case of Dubai ports authority and p and o ferry
• Devise an effective remedy, within the WTO guidelines, based on the premise that injury has occurred within a specified industry
• Effectively record data relevant to the countervailing measures that might be evidenced in the case for a sunset review
• Establish the WTO requirement for suspension of the countervailing measures
• Determine the situations under which a sunset review is permitted under the ADA
• Devise a communication mechanism that will effectively inform industrialists and other relevant parties, the aspects of the ADA and their role in the suspension of the countervailing measures and the establishment of a sunset review
• Use case examples to build a scenario within which to conduct a sunset review
• conduct a sunset review
• Use data from a sunset review to determine whether there are grounds for the continuance or suspension of the countervailing measures
• Look beyond the sunset review and countervailing measure suspension to the formulation of government policy and strategy that will discourage dumping, within the ADA.