المملكة: Gulf investigation to review the dumping fees for ceramic tiles from China and India

The Technical Secretariat to combat harmful practices in international trade in the Gulf Cooperation Council has announced the start of procedures for achieving a review of the end of the period, regarding the imports of the GCC countries from the product of ceramic tiles and porcelain with origin or exported by the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India.
This investigation comes in response to a complaint from the Gulf industry demanding that the current fees to combat dumping for an additional five years.

The investigation, in accordance with the provisions of the unified Gulf law to combat dumping and the agreements of the World Trade Organization, aims to assess whether to end the current fees in the current fees will lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping practices and harm to the Gulf industry.
The complaint submitted to issue a final decision to extend the fees for another five years to protect from imports from China and India.
The complaint confirmed that the imported imports of the relevant product are still returning to the Gulf market and causing damage despite the validity of the current fees.
She warned that ending the fees, based on data and accounts, will result in a significant increase in these imports and large price differences in favor of the imported product and the margin of dumping uninteresting, which inevitably results in “the repetition of damage and dumping and unnecessary damage that negatively affects the indicators of the Gulf industry”, which had begun to improve during the period of fees.