Twenty new anti-dumping cases for textiles
23/10/2008
The World Trade Organisation has confirmed that its members launched 85 new anti-dumping investigations in the first half of 2007 (the latest period for which data is available), with observers interpreting this as a sign of increasing tensions in the international trade arena.
Apart from base metals, which provoked 21 new investigations, the textile sector is the most contentious, with 20 new cases of alleged manipulation of export prices. The chemicals industry was in third place with ten.
China was the trading partner that received the highest number of complaints, followed by Taiwan, the European Union, South Korea, Russia and the US.
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