South Korea has been investigated by the United States for corrosion resistant steel, cold rolling p

In February 20th, Korea asked for some rules in the anti-dumping investigation and countervailing duty (dual anti -) investigation carried out by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the US's export products to Korea.
According to a statement from the WTO released the same day, South Korea's request for consultations aimed at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the export to Korea part of the corrosion of steel products, cold-rolled steel, hot rolled steel plate and large transformer for "double reverse" in the process of investigation using "that was the fact that" rules for exports of dumping or subsidies behavior cognizance. The Korean side believes that the rule does not conform to the relevant regulations of the WTO.




According to WTO's agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures, in the process of countervailing investigation, if the party concerned can not provide relevant evidence, the importing country's investigation authority can make use of the evidence obtained to make a ruling, such evidence is called the "acquired fact". The rule of the United States's "unacceptable facts" stipulates that when the investigation organs decide to make use of the "facts available", if there is any cooperation between the investigated party at the same time, we can make a ruling with the fact that the investigated party is absolutely unfavourable.
Since the beginning of this year, the U. S. "double counter" investigation rules have been repeatedly questioned by other members of the WTO. In January 10th, the United States Canada since 1996 according to EU, India, Brazil, Chinese and many other members of the WTO of hundreds of "double reverse" survey case, questioned the calculation method of the United States has repeatedly used and widely implemented trade rules contrary to the relevant provisions of WTO.
The consultation is the first link of the WTO's dispute settlement mechanism. If no satisfactory results have been reached in the 60 days of consultation, the Republic of Korea may ask the WTO to set up an expert group for trial.