Monday, December 27, 2010

World Bank: global trade retaliation case volume continues to decline

The World Bank (WorldBank) on Tuesday said, the first quarter by trade relief measures to restrict imports decrease in the number of countries, show the worst global recession period of trade protectionist pressures have subsided.

The World Bank from the financial crisis will begin monitoring the implementation of retaliatory tariffs. That said, the first three months of this year should business limit import requirements and the number of new investigations initiated earlier declined by 20%.

Anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases already for the second consecutive quarter of decline. But as of 2009, the third quarter, the number of such cases have four consecutive quarter-on-year increase, and in the third quarter of 2009 reached peak 46. In the first quarter of this year launched a new trade relief survey number has dropped to 27.

Surprisingly, although the investigation and final tariffs usually exist between one or more years of delay time difference, the first quarter of this year, the number of actual tariffs but fell by half. In the first quarter of the implementation of the new import restrictions only 12 onwards, for the second quarter of 2008, the lowest value since.

World Bank report says 2010 first quarter the number of trade barriers fall in some unexpected, given that this initial launch and the global economic crisis is still in progress, the number of investigations, the remainder of this year to increase the number of trade barriers, it is not surprising.

China is still trade remedy measures the maximum target State, 47% of newly launched investigations and 82% of completed cases involving China.

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