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FTAA.sme/inf/75
August 12, 2003

Original: Spanish
Translation: FTAA Secretariat

FTAA – CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON SMALLER ECONOMIES

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

PROJECTS OF THE GROUP ON SUBSIDIES, ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTIES
(NGADCV) 

I. Introduction

Securing support for addressing issues such as the application of antidumping measures, the interaction between trade and competition policy, a public interest clause in a general sense, and specifically in the framework of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), is of the utmost importance for the Dominican Republic, since such support would contribute to these topics being dealt with in all their breadth and thereby benefit Dominican negotiators.
 
  1. Project Title

    Workshop-Seminar on Managing Antidumping Measures, a Comparative Analysis of Antidumping Measures in Regional Agreements among the Countries of the FTAA. Course on Identifying the Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy.

  2. Background

    Studies have, for some time, been conducted on the relationship between competition policy and antidumping measures. In fact, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is currently conducting one such study. Nevertheless, we must move beyond mere studies to a framework of rules within which to pursue the negotiations, including cost-benefit analyses on the public interest and other topics. The aim is to explore ways to improve the application of antidumping measures in the Western hemisphere. Such efforts should also examine which regional agreements have prohibited antidumping measures and those which allow their members to apply such measures.


  3. Rationale

    One of the primary objectives of the Dominican Republic and the negotiators of the Negotiating Group on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties is to delve further into these topics, the better to gain an understanding the arguments both in favor of and against applying antidumping measures and countervailing duties, as well as analytical perspectives on antidumping, the principles governing competition policy, the development in the use of antidumping measures, the public-interest clause, the replacement of antidumping measures with competition policy, categories of dumping, and the application or non-application of antidumping measures in the Western Hemisphere and in certain regional agreements. 

     
  4. Objectives of the project:

    1. General
      To provide the members of the Negotiating Group on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties with the expertise, capacity, and tools needed to meet the challenges of current and future negotiations. 
       
    2. Specific


  5. Inputs: resources needed for the project

    1. Specialized technical assistance
    2. Training of negotiators of the Group on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties (NGADCV)
    3. Consultants
       
  6.  Expected Results

    More training, and expertise for, the members of the Negotiating Group on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties, which will stand the Dominican Republic in good stead for its future negotiations.

     
  7. Other relevant information
     
 
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