Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2017
The dispute principally concerns the provisional and definitive anti-dumping measures applied by Canada on imports of certain Carbon Steel Welded Pipe (CSWP) from Chinese Taipei.
Case Summaries: WTO Disputes
The following summaries provide a brief factual background and describe the key findings of recent WTO panel and Appellate Body reports.
1 Panel Report, Canada – Welded Pipe, paras. 2.1–2.3.
2 Ibid. para. 19, referring to Panel Report Mexico–Anti-Dumping Measures on Rice, para. 7.137.
3 Ibid. para. 7.37.
4 Ibid. para. 7.40.
5 Ibid. para. 7.43.
6 Ibid. para. 7.44–7.45.
7 Ibid. para. 7.46.
8 Ibid. para. 7.58.
9 Ibid. paras. 7.59–7.65.
10 Ibid. para. 7.73.
11 Ibid. para. 7.74.
12 Ibid. para. 7.76.
13 Ibid. para. 7.77.
14 Ibid. para. 7.78.
15 Ibid. para. 7.83.
16 Ibid. para. 7.88.
17 Ibid. para. 7.89.
18 Ibid. para. 7.91.
19 Ibid. paras. 7.92, 7.94.
20 Ibid. para. 7.106.
21 Ibid. para. 7.100.
22 Ibid. para. 7.113.
23 Ibid. paras. 7.114, 7.117.
24 Ibid. para. 7.114.
25 Ibid. para. 7.113 quoting Appellate Body Report, Mexico–Anti-Dumping Measures on Rice, para 289; Appellate Body Report, US–Carbon Steel (India), paras. 4.421 and 4.424; Appellate Body Report, US–Countervailing Measures (China), para. 4.179.
26 Ibid. para. 7.141.
27 Ibid. para. 7.144.
28 Ibid. para. 7.148.
29 Ibid. para. 7.146.
30 Ibid. para. 8.1(j).
31 Ibid. Para. 7.170.
32 Ibid. Para. 7.176.