AL Armouti Secures Significant Victory In Safeguards Case
Amman—AL Armouti earned a significant victory this week after a final determination to terminate the safeguards investigation on potato chips imports without imposing a safeguard measure.
Yesterday, Jordan officially notified the WTO of the final determination, issued by the Minister of Industry and Trade based on the recommendation of the investigating authority.
The investigation was initiated by the National Production Protection Authority on September 1st, 2019, after three local potato chip producers filed a petition. The petitioners claimed they were suffering serious injury due to increased imports of "competing" potato chips into the Jordanian market.
AL Armouti represented the major importer of potato chips and assisted several international companies exporting the product to Jordan.
Throughout the investigation, AL Armouti demonstrated that the petitioners were not representative of the overall Jordanian industry, as required by WTO safeguard regulations and the National Production Protection Law. This disqualified the data presented in the petition from being legally effective, particularly concerning the relative increase of imports and alleged injury. Additionally, AL Armouti showed that the claimed injury was due to various factors other than imports and that the increase in imports was not caused by unforeseen developments.
Yesterday, Jordan officially notified the WTO of the final determination, issued by the Minister of Industry and Trade based on the recommendation of the investigating authority.
The investigation was initiated by the National Production Protection Authority on September 1st, 2019, after three local potato chip producers filed a petition. The petitioners claimed they were suffering serious injury due to increased imports of "competing" potato chips into the Jordanian market.
AL Armouti represented the major importer of potato chips and assisted several international companies exporting the product to Jordan.
Throughout the investigation, AL Armouti demonstrated that the petitioners were not representative of the overall Jordanian industry, as required by WTO safeguard regulations and the National Production Protection Law. This disqualified the data presented in the petition from being legally effective, particularly concerning the relative increase of imports and alleged injury. Additionally, AL Armouti showed that the claimed injury was due to various factors other than imports and that the increase in imports was not caused by unforeseen developments.
Yesterday, Jordan officially notified the WTO of the final determination, issued by the Minister of Industry and Trade based on the recommendation of the investigating authority.
The investigation was initiated by the National Production Protection Authority on September 1st, 2019, after three local potato chip producers filed a petition. The petitioners claimed they were suffering serious injury due to increased imports of "competing" potato chips into the Jordanian market.
AL Armouti represented the major importer of potato chips and assisted several international companies exporting the product to Jordan.
Throughout the investigation, AL Armouti demonstrated that the petitioners were not representative of the overall Jordanian industry, as required by WTO safeguard regulations and the National Production Protection Law. This disqualified the data presented in the petition from being legally effective, particularly concerning the relative increase of imports and alleged injury. Additionally, AL Armouti showed that the claimed injury was due to various factors other than imports and that the increase in imports was not caused by unforeseen developments.
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