National Retail Federation Advocates for Improvements in WTO Rules

On December 4, 2007, the U.S. Customs House Guide reported that the National Retail Federation (NRF) stated that it will review a draft text of proposed new trade remedy rules released by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on November 30, 2007 and will focus on whether the draft will result in reforms to end what the increasing abuse of anti-dumping and countervailing duties mechanisms.

“One of the key objectives of American retailers in the Doha round is to obtain improvements and clarifications in the rules governing the use of anti-dumping and countervailing duty actions against imported products that will prevent abusive and unfair use of these measures and ensure that they do not undermine the competitiveness of U.S. retailers, manufacturers, and farmers,” NRF Vice President and International Trade Counsel Erik Autor said. “We will carefully review the text released today to ascertain whether it can serve as a basis for achieving the retail industry’s goals in these negotiations.”

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