G/ADP/N/1/OMN/3  
G/SCM/N/1/OMN/3  
G/SG/N/1/OMN/3  
 
28 September 2015  
(15-4997)  Page: 1/7  
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices 
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Committee on Safeguards 
 Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER 
ARTICLES 18.5, 32.6 AND 12.6 OF THE AGREEMENTS 
OMAN 
The following communication, dated 16 September 2015, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Oman. 
 
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The Delegation of the Sultanate of Oman has the honour to notify the Committee on Anti-Dumping 
Practices, the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and the Committee on 
Safeguards, in accordance with Article 18.5 of th e Agreement on the Implementation of Article VI 
of the GATT 1994, Article 32.6 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and 
Article 12.6 of the Agreement on Safeguards, ha s ratified a Gulf Cooperation Council ("GCC") 
Amended Common law on Anti-Dumping, Countervailing and Safeguards issued by Royal Decree 
No 20/2015 on 24 May 2015.  The GCC law is authentic only in Arabic, the attached English translation of the GCC is only for the 
reference of WTO Members. 
 The Rules of Implementation of the GCC Amende d Common law on Anti-Dumping, Countervailing 
and Safeguard Measures is being translated into English and will be notified to the Committee on 
Anti-Dumping Practices, the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and the Committee on Safeguards after translation. 
 
 
FINAL VERSION 2014 
 
The Cooperation Council for the Arab Stat es of the Gulf Secretariat General 
Bureau of the Technical Secretariat for Anti-Injurious Practices in International Trade 
Amended 
GCC Common Law on Anti-Dumping, Count ervailing Measures and Safeguards 
2011-1432 
Article 1 
 
Objective 
 
The objective of the Law is to empower Member States to take measures against Dumping, Subsidy and Increase of imports which cause injury for any of GCC
 industries. 
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  Article 2 
 
Scope 
 
This Law applies to injurious practices in international trade from non-Member States toward 
Member States. 
Article 3 
 
Definitions: 
 
For the purpose of the Law, the expressions indicated below have the following meanings. Unless 
otherwise specified: 
 
-  GCC: Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. 
-  Member States : GCC Member States. 
-  Ministerial Committee (MC) : GCC industrial cooperation committee which consist 
of Industrial Ministers of Member States. 
-  The Financial and Economical Cooperation Committee (FECC) : GCC finance 
and economic committee which consists of Member States' Ministers of Finance and Economy. 
-  Permanent Committee (PC):  Committee on Anti-Injurious Practices in 
International Trade of Member States. 
-  Bureau of the Technical Secretariat : GCC Technical Secretariat Bureau for 
Anti-Injurious Practices in International Trade. 
-  Judicial Commission : The Judicial Commission that is established according to the 
Economic Agreement of the Member States. 
-  The Law : GCC common law on anti-dumping, countervailing measures and 
safeguards. 
-  Rules of Implementation : The rules issued to implement the GCC common Law 
provisions. 
-  Interior Rules : Rules of the Permanent Committee's modalities of work and its 
decision making process. 
-  Official Gazette : The Gazette issued by the Bureau of the Technical Secretariat. 
-  Injurious practices in  international trade : Dumping, subsidy and increase of 
imports. 
-  Dumping : Exporting a product to Member States at less than its normal value in 
the ordinary course of trade for the like product in the exporting country. 
-  Subsidy : A financial contribution or any form of income or price support in the 
sense of Article XVI of GATT 1994, provided  by the government of the country of 
origin or a public body within the territory of this country that confer a benefits to the beneficiary. 
-  Measures : Anti-dumping, Countervailing and Safeguard measures. 
-  Anti-dumping measures : Measures against dumping according to this Law and its 
Rules of Implementation. G/ADP/N/1/OMN/3 • G/SCM/N/1/OMN/3 • G/SG/N/1/OMN/3 
 
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  -  Countervailing measures : Measures against countervailable subsidy, according to 
this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
-  Safeguard measures : Measures against increase of imports according to this Law 
and its Rules of Implementation. 
-  Definitive measures : Measures taken by the Ministerial Committee at the end of 
an investigation, and definitive affirmative determinations have been made according to this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
-  Provisional measures : Temporary Measures taken by the Permanent Committee, 
during the investigation and preliminary affirmative determinations have been made according to this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
-  Complaint : A written application submitted according to the form prepared for this 
purpose. 
-  GCC Industry : Member States' producers as a whole of the like products or those 
of them whose collective output of the products constitutes a major proportion of the 
total domestic production of those products. For the purpose of safeguard 
investigations, the term GCC industry shall mean total Member States producers as a whole of the like or directly competitive products operating within the territory of 
Member states, or those whose collective output of the like or directly competitive 
products constitutes a major proportion of the total domestic production of those products. 
-  Interested parties : Exporter or foreign producer, importer of the product under 
investigation, producers which their industrial inputs include the product under 
investigation, governmental or private organizations which represent or protect consumers, governments of the exporting country or any other national or foreign 
parties shown to have an interest in the products under investigation. 
-  GCC Market : overall markets of the GCC Member States. 
 
Article 4 
 
Complaint and Investigation Procedures 
 
A complaint against injurious practices in international trade shall be submitted, accepted, 
examined, and an investigation shall be initiated, conducted, reviewed or terminated, as well as measures shall be imposed in accordance with this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
 
Article 5 
 
Measures 
 
Measures might be taken in the following cases:  
1.  If determined that imports of the products under investigation into the Member States are 
dumped or benefitted from a specific subsidy and caused material injury or threat to cause material injury to an established GCC Industry or materially retards the establishment of a GCC 
industry, and there is a causal link. 
 2.  If determined that products under investigation are being imported into the Member States in 
such increased quantities, absolute or relative to the GCC production, and under such conditions 
as to cause or threaten to cause material injury to the GCC industry that produced like or directly competitive products, and there is a casual link.  G/ADP/N/1/OMN/3 • G/SCM/N/1/OMN/3 • G/SG/N/1/OMN/3 
 
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  Article 6 
 
Forms of Measures 
 
Measures may take the following forms: 
 1.  Definitive anti-dumping and countervailing measures may take the form of customs duties or 
price undertakings not beyond the dumping margin or the amount of subsidy that is finally 
determined.  2.  Provisional anti-dumping and countervailing measures may take the form of customs duties, 
price undertakings or security by cash deposit or bond not greater than the provisionally estimated 
margin of dumping or the amounts of subsidy.  
3.  Definitive safeguards measures against increase of imports may take the form of either a 
quantitative restriction, tariff increase, or any other form, which is consistent with the 
WTO agreements. 
 
4.  Provisional safeguards measures shou ld take the form of tariff increases. 
 
Article 7 
 
Implementation of the Law and Its Rules of Implementation 
 
The Ministerial Committee, the Permanent Committ ee and the Bureau of the Technical Secretariat 
are within their sphere of competence, responsi ble for implementing this Law and its Rules of 
Implementation. 
 
Article 8 
 
Competences of the Ministerial Committee 
 
The Ministerial Committee is competent to take decisions in the following matters:  
1.  Approving the imposition of definitive measures against dumping, specific subsidy and increase 
of imports, extending, suspending, terminating, an d increasing or reducing definitive anti-dumping 
and countervailing measures. 
 
2.  Settling disputes that may arise between Member States regarding the interpretation and implementation of this Law.  
3.  Issuing the Rules of Implementation of this Law. 
 4.  Deciding on the administrative reviews pertaining to the definitive decisions and determinations 
made in implementing this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
 5.  Adopting the interior regulation
 of the Bureau of Technical Secretariat. 
 
6.  Appointing the director general of the Bureau of Technical Secretariat.  7.  Any other competence attributed by this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
 
Article 9 
 
Permanent Committee 
 
1.  Composition of the Permanent Committee 
 
The Permanent Committee is composed of undersecretaries of concerned ministries of Member States or whomever in their status. The presidency of the Permanent Committee is rotated between Member States in conformity with GCC presidency policy. 
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  2.  Competences of the Permanent Committee  
 The Permanent Committee is competent in the following matters:  
a. Taking measures stated in this Law and its Rules of Implementation, including imposing 
provisional measures and accepting price undertakings.  
b. Proposing to the Ministerial Committee the imposition of definitive anti-dumping 
measures, definitive countervailing measures and definitive safeguard measures against 
increased imports. 
c. Setting up committees and establishing specialized administrative units of the Bureau of 
the Technical Secretariat. 
d. Adopting the Technical Secretariat strategies of work in compliance with its 
predetermined competences. 
e. Proposing appropriate solutions to the Ministerial Committee for settlements of disputes 
that may arise between Member States regarding the interpretation and implementation 
of this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
f. Proposing the amendment of this La w and its Rules of Implementation. 
g. Proposing the amendments of the interior regulation of the Bureau of Technical 
Secretariat. 
h. Approving and amending its interior regulation. 
i. Approving the budget project of the Bureau of  Technical Secretariat before its adoption 
in compliance with the regulatory proceedings. 
j. Adopting financial, administrative and other regulations of the Bureau of the Technical 
Secretariat. 
k. Nominating the Director General of the Bureau of Technical Secretariat. 
l. Any other competence attributed by the Ministerial Committee. 
Article 10 
 
Bureau of Technical Secretariat 
 
1.  Based on this Law, a Bureau of Technical Secretariat of Anti-injurious Practices in International 
Trade shall be set up under the umbrella of the General Secretariat of GCC. The Bureau of the 
Technical Secretariat have a financial and administrative autonomy by mean of an annexed budget to GCC General Secretariat's budget, and it is presided by a director general. 
 
2.  Competences of the Bureau  of Technical Secretariat: 
 
a. Organizing the Permanent Committee activities and preparing for its meetings and 
agenda, as well as drafting its decisions and carrying out any other function that will be assigned to perform and it has to that effect to request information, studies, statistics and reports that may be useful for the work of the Permanent Committee. 
b. Following up the implementation of the Ministerial and Permanent Committee decisions. 
c. Providing consultancy and technical support for GCC producers and exporters who are 
facing dumping, subsidy and safeguards investigations in other countries and following 
them up in coordination with the concerned authorities of Member States. 
d. Participating in the activities of related organizations and international forums. G/ADP/N/1/OMN/3 • G/SCM/N/1/OMN/3 • G/SG/N/1/OMN/3 
 
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  e. Providing trimester reports to the Permanent Committee containing information and 
statistics regarding the Bureau of Technical Secretariat's activities and all registered and examined investigations as well as their time frame and deadlines. 
f. Receiving the complaints against injurious practices in international trade and related 
requirements. 
g. Conducting investigations against injurious practices in international trade and all related 
reviews in accordance with this Law and its Rules of Implementations. 
h. Preparing the annual budget project of the Bu reau of Technical Secretariat and executing 
it upon its approval. 
i. Working on spreading out and raising Member  States awareness of the concepts of 
dumping, subsidy and increase in imports. 
j. Any other duties or activities assigned to th e Bureau of the Technical Secretariat by the 
Ministerial and Permanent Committees. 
Article 11 
 
Administrative and Judicial Review 
 
1.  Any interested party who participated in the investigation and he is directly and individually 
affected by final determinations taken in application of this Law and its Rules of Implementation shall before resorting to the judicial review, lodge an administrative review to the Ministerial Committee within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of such determinations in the 
Official Gazette. The Ministerial Committee shall decide on this review within sixty (60) days from 
the date of its submission otherwise it will be considered rejected.  
2.  The complaining party whose administrative review was rejected can appeal before the Judicial 
Commission within thirty (30) days from the date of his notification by any means of notification.  
Article 12 
 
Confidentiality of Information 
 
Everyone and the competent investigation and decision making authorities pursuant to this Law 
and its Rules of Implementation shall keep confidential any information submitted to them on a confidential basis or which is by nature confidential. The above-mentioned person and authorities 
are not allowed to disclose such information without a prior written permission from the party who 
submitted or disclosed this informatio n to the GCC Judicial Commission.  
 
Article 13 
 
Penalties 
 
Without prejudice to any other repressive penalty stipulated in any other law, the violation of the 
rule provided for in Article 12 shall be subject to monetary fine not exceeding 500.000 Saudi Riyals or its equivalent in the currencies of Member States.  
 
Article 14 
 
Interpretation and Amendment of the Law 
 The Financial and Economic Cooperation Committee should explain and amend this Law in coordination with the Ministerial Committee.
 
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  Article 15 
 
Entry into Force 
 
This Law shall be entering into force on 1 January 2004. Member States must publish it in the 
Official Gazette.  
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