However, they should avoid replacing tariffs and non tariff barriers with administered protection measures, such as anti dumping restrictions.

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The international community could do its part by removing non tariff barriers, ending abusive anti dumping measures, granting debt relief and increasing official development assistance.

Experts agreed that developing countries engaged in steel trade, for example Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Viet Nam, faced market distortions due both to market access barriers and to trade measures, including subsidies, anti dumping actions, and tariff peaks and tariff escalation.

Some countries have applied special rules of origin for the implementation of anti circumvention measures which aimed to prevent alleged evasions of anti dumping duties the result is the extension of anti dumping duties to third countries without separate investigations of dumping and injury.

Especially prevalent here are anti dumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) measures.

Nor has any breakthrough been reached in the area of trade, in spite of the recognition by the Conference of issues of particular interest to developing countries subsidies, anti dumping measures, trade liberalization for agricultural products, tariff peaks and tariff escalation and special and differential treatment, to name just a few.

In 1995 1996, 147 anti dumping actions were initiated by a number of developed countries and nearly 600 definitive anti dumping duties were in force in these countries at the end of 1996.

For example, when anti dumping actions taken by the United States became the main obstacle for flower exports, lawsuits to counter these anti dumping actions were financed out of the government administered Diversification Fund.

Moreover, the Uruguay Round Decision on Anti Circumvention recognized the desirability of uniform rules on anti dumping circumvention measures, and a number of pertinent issues, including the question of what precisely constitutes circumvention, are under consideration in the Committee on Anti Dumping Practices.

Those immediate steps should include an agreement on an end date for eliminating agriculture export subsidies, a commitment to eliminate tariff peaks and tariff escalations, a moratorium on anti dumping actions against poor countries, an end to the abusive use of standards for protection and the initiation of a development review of intellectual property.

(d) Abusive application of anti dumping, sanitary and phytosanitary standards and other trade distorting measures

The abusive use of anti dumping measures was a matter of concern to his delegation.

In cases where anti dumping, countervailing or safeguard measures are used against imported goods according to the provisions of related laws or administrative regulations, the application of tariff rate shall be determined in line with the relevant provisions of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Anti dumping, Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Countervailing Measures, and the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Safeguard Measures.

The rules negotiations cover anti dumping, subsidies and countervailing measures, including fisheries subsidies, and regional trade agreements.

8. Reaffirms the importance of market access, and in this context recalls the importance of respect for World Trade Organization disciplines, including in the area of anti dumping, inter alia, to avoid the abusive application of anti dumping and other trade distorting measures

Concern was also expressed that textile quotas may be replaced by anti dumping measures and other NTB measures.

The developed countries should avoid resorting to anti dumping and countervailing duties to unfairly target developing country exports.

The use of contingency protection measures, particularly anti dumping measures, is increasing in developed and some developing countries.

25 World Trade Organization, Committee on Anti Dumping Practices, document G ADP N 35 ARG, 27 March 1998.

The clearest example is anti dumping, a ploy used whenever a country begins to succeed in competing with specific products.

The abuse of anti dumping measures and the use of discriminatory trade actions were among the actions to be rejected.

Among the problems of an external nature, first of all, we have the difficulties related to the establishment of Ukraine as an equal partner in the international market for goods and services tariff barriers, inadequate liberalization of world trade, anti dumping processes and the consequences of the global economic crisis.

When anti dumping measures are applied to Chilean products by a developed country, this is to me a policy with local effects.

7. Expresses concern about the proliferation of anti dumping and countervailing measures, and stresses that they should not be used as protectionist measures

Anti dumping is a unilaterally applied tool that affects our growth and, as a result, undermines our ability to achieve greater social development.

With respect to efforts aimed at protecting competition at the level of external trade, he drew attention to Mexico s important anti dumping procedures.

For example, in the case of exports from the Russian Federation, anti dumping procedures had become a serious distortion and obstacle to steel exports.

That happened in the October 2006 anti dumping action against leather shoes, when the EU decided to impose anti dumping tariffs against China and Vietnam. Sweden s National Board of Trade conducted a case study of five European shoe producers in different countries and market segments to establish where the value added in their production processes was created.

With respect to goods from those countries, no quantitative restrictions on imports are applied, nor have we introduced anti dumping, compensatory or special protective measures.

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For example, as of mid 1997, some 150 anti dumping measures were in force in the European Union (EU) and about 300 in the United States of America.23 Moreover, developing countries similarly have started to make greater use of such trade remedies .24 Indeed, as of 1996, developing countries accounted for over half the anti dumping actions reported to the World Trade Organization.25

Non Tariff Barriers

II. TARIFF PEAKS

III. TARIFF ESCALATION

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The study analyses the tariff situation for developing country exports and focuses on two major aspects (a) tariff peaks and (b) tariff escalation.

It was noted that numerous tariff and non tariff barriers remained, as well as tariff peaks and escalation, which affected developing countries exports.

In cases where export goods, to which export tariff rates are applicable are subject to temporary tariff rate, the temporary tariff rate shall apply.

It was also noted that numerous tariff and non tariff barriers remained, as well as tariff peaks and escalation, which affected developing countries exports.

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