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Trade Remedial Measures: India

1. The global landscape pertaining to trade remedies points towards an
increasing usage of these measures by WTO member countries. The
domestic industry in India has been raising concerns over rising instances
of unfair trading practices causing injury to the domestic industry. In view of
the growing instances of dumping, subsidized exports and surge of exports
emanating from abroad, Indian industry has been facing severe stress and
has been seeking level playing eld. Within the strict disciplines of WTO
Agreements, India had to resort to initiating and enforcing trade remedial
measures for protecting its domestic industry. Various trade remedial
measures by and against India, along with the global scenario since 1995
are presented at Table 1.

Table1: Trade Remedial Measures by and against India

Measures Measures by Measures against
Trade Globally India India
Remedies
Initiated Imposed Initiated Imposed Initiated Imposed

Anti-Dumping 5529 3604 888 656 227 130
Countervailing
Duty 486 257 3 2 82 45
Investigation
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Safeguard 331 166 43 21
Source: WTO data (01.01.1995 to 31.12.2017).

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