Customs
Additional duty on imported goods sold below their normal value (dumped) in the importing country's market.
The WTO defines the underlying practice rather than the duty: “Dumping is, in general, a situation of international price discrimination, where the price of a product when sold in the importing country is less than the price of that product in the market of the exporting country.” A member may impose anti-dumping measures only after an investigation establishes three things together — that dumping is occurring, that the domestic industry producing the like product suffers material injury or the threat of it, and that the two are causally linked. The WTO adds that such determinations must rest on “positive evidence” and involve “an objective examination”. Two consequences follow for an exporter: a low price alone is not dumping, and an injury finding without a causal link is not a valid basis for a duty.
These words are the WTO’s own explanatory text, not the agreement itself: the treaty PDFs on wto.org are closed to automated retrieval, so nothing here is presented as a quotation from a treaty article.
Anti-dumping duty (ADD) is an additional customs duty imposed on goods sold below their normal value (dumped) in the importing country. EU has imposed anti-dumping measures on some Indian exports — check the EU TARIC database for any ADD applicable to your HS code. Common EU anti-dumping measures on Indian goods: stainless steel, certain chemicals, ceramic tiles.
From the AJG lexicon archive (July 2026).
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