EC Anti-Dumping and Trade Defence Law and Practice provides a comprehensive, regularly-updated account of the anti-dumping and trade defence law and practice of the European Community.

This publication is now in Ebook (PDF) format as well as conventional loose-leaf print.

by Edmond McGovern

ISSN 1751-2999 (PRINT) - A4 loose-leaf  binder;   ISSN  1756-2732 (ONLINE) - Ebook by email.

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Contents

EC law and practice on:

• Anti-dumping and anti-subsidy (countervailing) measures
• Safeguard measures (including the special measures on Chinese exports)
• The Trade Barriers Regulation

These topics cover all the instruments that the EU refers to as ‘trade defence measures’. Anti-dumping remains the most important topic, but countervailing measures are now a regularly-used weapon in the EU’s trade armoury. Furthermore, with the problems accompanying the liberalization of trade with China, safeguard measures, in particular the special measures permitted under China’s WTO accession protocol, are likely to be of increasing significance.

The main concern of the publication is EC law, but there are frequent references to the relevant rules of WTO law.  As established in the Nakajima ruling of the European Court of Justice, these rules have direct implications for the interpretation of EC law.

Print and Electronic format

Subscriptions are available in traditional loose-leaf print form or electronically as comprehensive updated editions. The Ebook option (PDF) provides greatly increased usability along with significantly reduced cost.  Nearly all computer users will be familiar with the free Adobe Reader program for looking at PDF files. It provides unrivalled search options, as well as enabling us to use linked cross references and bookmarked section headings.

Increasing importance

The reduction in trade barriers brought about by the Uruguay Round has increased the importance of trade defence measures, especially anti-dumping duties, as a means by which domestic industries can defend themselves against low-priced imports. The recent abolition of textiles quotas will undoubtedly give rise to more proceedings in this sector. New actions such as these are accompanied by significant numbers of review proceedings, as measures imposed in the past reach their expiry dates.

Capturing developments

Decisions in individual trade defence investigations often contain significant new applications of the rules. Furthermore, such decisions are not infrequently appealed to the European Courts, leading to authoritative interpretations of the texts. EC Anti-Dumping and Trade Defence Law and Practice takes account of these developments, along with periodic amendments to the rules, merging them into the text so as to provide an account of the subject that is comprehensive, straightforward and up-to-date. Precise citations enable the reader to find exactly where among many hundreds of decisions and court reports a point has been established.

User friendly

Three updates a year ensure that the contents are right up-to-date. In addition, a rapid production and distribution timetable enables us to dispatch these updates to subscribers within a few days of decisions being published.

Materials

In addition to the analysis of the rules there are many pages of supporting material including tables of cases and decisions, and important texts. These include consolidated versions of the basic EC instruments, as well as EC Commission advisory notices.

The full scope of the text is shown in the Table of contents

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