Being an active user of trade remedy instruments, Pakistan has, since the year 2002, completed twenty-five anti-dumping investigations of which nineteen resulted in imposition of anti-dumping measures. Six investigations were terminated and no measure was imposed. The nineteen measures that have been imposed have brought substantial and significant relief to the affected Pakistani industries by way of anti-dumping duties imposed on specified imports, hence protecting output and employment as well as profits. Another seven investigations are in progress. A safeguard investigation was also initiated in 2005 which resulted in no measure. For details on trade remedy actions taken by Pakistan, please visit www.ntc.gov.pk

It is worth noting that the bulk of activity in Pakistan in relation to trade remedy matters has been related to anti-dumping. This is quite in keeping with developments in the rest of the world, and reflects the fact that actionable subsidies are now much fewer than was once the case as well as the tougher benchmarks for obtaining remedies under the Agreement on Safeguards.