India on top in carrying out anti-dumping investigations

China tops the list of countries subject to anti-dumping investigations, the WTO said.

Most of the investigations involved the base metals sector, such as iron, steel and aluminium products, followed by chemicals and plastics.

After investigations, 16 WTO members imposed 106 final anti-dumping measures against exports from other countries.

India imposed the highest number of final measures during the second half of 2002. Dumping is the selling of goods at an unfairly low price. WTO agreements allow governments to act against dumping when there is material injury to the competing domestic industry.

Anti-dumping action normally involves charging extra import duty on a product from a particular exporting country to bring its price closer to the normal value, or remove the injury to the domestic industry.