UAE takes Pakistan to WTO over anti-dumping duty

Pakistan has 60 days to settle dispute after which UAE could ask WTO to adjudicate


Reuters January 30, 2018
Delegates arrives for a special meeting of the General Council Preparatory Committee on Trade Facilitation at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva November 27, 2014. PHOTO: REUTERS

GENEVA: The United Arab Emirates has launched a trade complaint at the World Trade Organisation to challenge Pakistan’s duties on biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film, used in food packaging, a WTO filing showed on Monday.

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The UAE said the anti-dumping duties, imposed on UAE, China, Oman and Saudi Arabia, from April 2015 and extended in December 2016, broke WTO rules. Pakistan has 60 days to settle the dispute, after which the UAE could ask the WTO to adjudicate.

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