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Doha
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) is organising a workshop on local subsidies and the World Trade Organization’s countervailing measures with the participation of experts from the Ministry, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, General Authority of Customs and Qatar Chamber.
The workshop comes within the framework of the Ministry’s efforts to build the technical capacities of the employees specialised in WTO agreements, support and protect national products, and to train employees on the mechanism of applying countervailing measures.
The workshop also aims at familiarising authorities concerned with the different forms of subsidies that could be offered by the public sector to the private sector and local producers under the WTO’s agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures as well as the procedures that could be taken to protect domestic producers from competing imported subsidised products and to bolster the competitiveness of national products.
The workshop, which features a lecture by Sharif Kushkin, an expert at the Geneva-based WTO, addresses a number of topics including an overview of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and their definition, identifying permitted and prohibited subsidies under the WTO agreement, exceptions when it comes to developing countries and the role of subsidies within the WTO system. The workshop also tackles the impact and repercussions of subsidized imported products on local products and the resulting damage to both production value and market competitiveness.
The workshop also sheds light on the measures that could be taken to mitigate this damage by resorting to the WTO Dispute Settlement Gateway or by imposing protective measures to protect national products as well as the legal mechanisms to implement such measures
without violating the WTO rules.
Doha
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) is organising a workshop on local subsidies and the World Trade Organization’s countervailing measures with the participation of experts from the Ministry, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, General Authority of Customs and Qatar Chamber.
The workshop comes within the framework of the Ministry’s efforts to build the technical capacities of the employees specialised in WTO agreements, support and protect national products, and to train employees on the mechanism of applying countervailing measures.
The workshop also aims at familiarising authorities concerned with the different forms of subsidies that could be offered by the public sector to the private sector and local producers under the WTO’s agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures as well as the procedures that could be taken to protect domestic producers from competing imported subsidised products and to bolster the competitiveness of national products.
The workshop, which features a lecture by Sharif Kushkin, an expert at the Geneva-based WTO, addresses a number of topics including an overview of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and their definition, identifying permitted and prohibited subsidies under the WTO agreement, exceptions when it comes to developing countries and the role of subsidies within the WTO system. The workshop also tackles the impact and repercussions of subsidized imported products on local products and the resulting damage to both production value and market competitiveness.
The workshop also sheds light on the measures that could be taken to mitigate this damage by resorting to the WTO Dispute Settlement Gateway or by imposing protective measures to protect national products as well as the legal mechanisms to implement such measures
without violating the WTO rules.
