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8. Efforts were made to extract information for the initiations is the highest user during 2018, followed by
year 2018 from the mandatory semi-annual reports India with 32 initiations and China with 23 initiations
notified to WTO by each member country. Based on during the same year.
this provisional information available, USA with 41

Major user countries of AD Measures

Reporting Investigations initiated during Investigations initiated during
Member 1995-2017* 2018**
Numbers Percentage Numbers Percentage

India 888 16 32 16
United States 659 12 41 21
European Union 502 9 3 2
Brazil 410 7 9 5
Argentina 352 6 13 6
Australia 332 6 5 2
China 258 5 23 12
Others 2128 38 72 37

Total 5529 100 198 100
* Source WTO
** Provisional Data from SAR

9. The following analysis indicates trends in initiation declined and have come down to 20% during 2017 from
of ADD measures on year to year basis for last 5 years 23% during 2016 when seen as percentage of the global
by the major user countries: investigations initiated. The same declining trend is
also noticed in case of EU & Brazil, whereas initiations
10. The trend indicates that the investigations have increased significantly by USA (from 12% to 22%)
initiated by India as percentage of global measures have and China PR (from 2% to 10%) during 2017 as
compared to 2016.

* Source WTO

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