HOW TO DETERMINE CHINA'S DUMPING MARGIN: EXPERIENCE FROM THE DSB IN THE WTO

March 2017 the People's Republic of China (China) requested the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Panel regarding some measures of price comparison methodologies that the European Union (EU) introduced in June 2016. Although the Panel was established in April 2017 and composed in July 2017, the dispute is at its beginning. This is the first time that the WTO Panel was established in this matter, and in the context of para. 15 of the Protocol of Accession of China, although it covers certain methodological aspects of anti-dumping investigations that were the subject of some previous EU disputes in the WTO. Thus, the qualitative research based on analysing the conformity of the EU's legislation with the WTO law can bring interesting food for thought before the WTO Panel adopts its decision.(1)