The commercial lawsuit between Colombia and the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium in the case of antidumping policies to frozen fries from those countries presented a new episode yesterday.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a mixed ruling, in which, although it rectifies some aspects about the country, leaned towards the European position.
The panel of arbitrators of the international organization assured that Colombia violated international standards by imposing these restrictive measures and asked the country to modify technical aspects, aligning itself with the policies of the WTO, to avoid reprisals of the same style from the European bloc.
However, the group of experts pointed out that the country was right to initiate an investigation in the sense that the Anti-Dumping Agreement of the WTO allows to take into account the legal interpretations of the authorities conducting the investigations, before issuing the preferred interpretation of the courts.
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Among the measures to be rectified is the use of the DIAN database to calculate dumping margins, the confidential treatment of certain information presented during the investigation and technical aspects of the calculation of dumping margins.
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