Briefing Paper: WTO Doha Rules Group Negotiations on Dumping and Subsidies
The outcome of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) DOHA Development Round in the Trade Remedies Rules area has the potential to alter the current WTO Anti-dumping (AD) and Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) Agreements by improving and clarifying some of the provisions in both agreements. Given that New Zealand's Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act must be consistent with these agreements any agreed changes to them would need to be reflected in our Act.
The attached briefing paper is an update on where the WTO negotiations on the AD and SCM Agreements are as at mid April 2008. The negotiations are continuing in Geneva, with meetings scheduled in April, May and June 2008.
You are welcome to provide comments on the issues raised in the briefing paper or any other changes in the Chairman’s draft texts. Email responses should be addressed to: traderem@med.govt.nz
Hard copies can be sent to:
Trade Rules, Remedies and Tariffs Group
Competition, Trade and Investment Branch
Ministry of Economic Development
PO Box 1473
Wellington
Attention: Bruce Cullen or Robin Hill
If you also wish to learn more about the negotiating process you can also use the above contact points for this purpose.
No date for the finalisation of the negotiation can be predicted at this stage or when any changes could take place as negotiations on other Agreements such as Agriculture, Non-Agriculture Market Access, Services and Regional Trade Agreements also need to be completed before a total package is adopted.
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