Colombia, EU Start Arbitration Proceeding Over Antidumping Duties on EU Frozen Fries
Colombia and the EU initiated an arbitration proceeding at the World Trade Organization to look over a dispute panel's findings in a proceeding on Colombia's antidumping duties on frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, the WTO said. Colombia circulated the notice of appeal Oct. 10 and started the arbitration proceeding under Article 25 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding.
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The dispute panel's report was issued in August and found that Colombia violated the Anti-Dumping Agreement because the country's investigating authority failed to look at whether the use of third-country sales prices for calculating normal value was appropriate instead of domestic sales prices. The panel further found that Colombia violated its WTO commitments by failing to publish nonconfidential summaries of certain information, using facts available since it disregarded the export prices the respondent companies provided in questionnaire responses, and denying certain exporters' requests for adjustments in the dumping margin calculations. The panel also said that Colombia illegally included imports with de minimis margins in the injury and causation determinations.
"This is the first arbitration proceeding based on the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA) to which both Colombia and the European Union are participants," the WTO said.