Practices of Trade remedy investigation of India against Vietnam

15/12/2022 09:03 - 509 Views

Vietnam is not the main subject of India in trade remedy investigations. In fact, the total number of trade remedy investigations initiated by India against Vietnam only accounts for a small part, about 6% of the total number of cases initiated by India. In addition, the number of cases subject to trade remedy duties is only 4%.

Table 1: India’s trade remedy investigations on Vietnamese goods (1/1/1995 - 31/12/2021)

	Anti-dumping	Anti-subsidy	Safeguard	Total
Initiating investigations	20	4	46	70
Imposing measures	12	2	22	36

Source: WTO data

Among trade remedy measures, anti-dumping is the measure that India uses the most on Vietnamese goods. India started using this instrument with Vietnam in 2007 with the anti-dumping investigation on Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) imported from Vietnam. The Vietnamese products also subject to the most anti-dumping investigations by India are textiles and wood products.

Recently, India's anti-dumping investigation on Vietnamese goods has been on the rise, notably in 2019 and 2020, India conducted 4 anti-dumping investigations on Vietnamese exports. On January 21, 2022, India initiated an anti-dumping investigation on Vinyl tiles other than in roll or sheet form from Vietnam.

Figure 1: Trends of anti-dumping investigation by India against Vietnam