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Countervailing Duty of absolute numbers due to complex nature of these
investigations as compared to ADD. However, there is
13. The Countervailing Duty Measures are generally a sharp increasing trend in the total number of
less frequently used trade remedy measures in terms countervailing duty investigations since 2010.

Trend in Countervailing duty Investigations (Initiations)

*From 01.01.1995 – 31.12.2017; Source WTO

14. United States is the major user of Countervailing measures). It is clear that the developed countries
duty measures (219 initiations, 122 measures) are using the countervailing measures more
followed by European Union (79 initiations and frequently though the total CVD investigations are
38 measures), Canada (65 initiations and 29 much less in numbers as compared to ADD
measures) and Australia (28 initiations and 15 investigation in absolute terms.

Major Users of CVD: Initiated v/s Imposed

*From 01.01.1995 – 31.12.2017; Source WTO

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