ADSC sensitizes exporters on anti-dumping trade remedies

As part of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association’s National Exporters’ Month activities, the Anti-Dumping and Subsidies Commission (ADSC) hosted a workshop on May 22 to train exporters and producers.
The workshop was aimed at examining the trade policy tools used by the government to take action against imports causing injury to a domestic industry.
Executive Director of the ADSC, Andrea Marie Dawes, explained that the event staging provided an opportunity for exporters and producers to raise questions about their treatment in overseas markets.
“It also provided them a way of understanding that there are trade remedy opportunities and how being armed with such knowledge can improve how they do business daily as well as when faced with a crisis,” she said, at the workshop, held at the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) building on Trafalgar Road in Kingston.
Among the tools employed, which were examined during the workshop, are anti-dumping actions, which is a protectionist tariff that a domestic government imposes on imports it believes are priced below fair market value, subsidies, and safeguard actions.
Mrs. Dawes encouraged exporters and other stakeholders to contact the Commission when faced with any problems related to anti-dumping.
An agency of the Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, the ADSC’s primary function is to conduct investigations and make determinations in trade remedy matters.
Additionally, an import of the mandate of the Commission is to increase awareness of these remedies and Jamaica’s obligations under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements among businesses, and the public.
The Commission has also played an advisory role nationally, regionally and internationally.
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