G/ADP/N/1/QAT/3  
G/SCM/N/1/QAT/3  
G/SG/N/1/QAT/3  
 
20 March 2015  
(15-1591)  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 
QATAR 
The following communication, dated 12 March 2015, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Qatar. 
 
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 The State of Qatar hereby notifies 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 the Agreement on the Implementati on 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 respectively, of the English Translation of the Gulf Cooperation Council ("GCC") 
Amended Common Law on Anti-Dumping, Countervailing and Safeguard Measures (the "Law"). 
The GCC Law is authentic only in Arabic. The attached English translation of the GCC Law 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 are 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.   G/ADP/N/1/QAT/3 • G/SCM/N/1/QAT/3 • G/SG/N/1/QAT/3 
 
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  Unofficial Translation 
  
Amended 
GCC Common Law on Anti-Dumping, Co untervailing and Safeguard Measures 
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 to any GCC
 industries. 
  
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 Economic 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 and safeguard 
measures. 
-  Rules of Implementation : The rules issued to implement the provisions of the 
GCC Common Law. 
-  Internal Rules : The rules of the Permanent Committee's work modalities and its 
decision making process. 
-  Official Gazette : The Gazette issued by the Bureau of the Technical Secretariat. G/ADP/N/1/QAT/3 • G/SCM/N/1/QAT/3 • G/SG/N/1/QAT/3 
 
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  -  Injurious practices in  international trade : Dumping, subsidy and increase in 
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 benefit 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. 
-  Countervailing measures : Measures against specific 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 adopted by the Ministerial Committee at the end 
of an investigation, where definitive affirmative determinations have been made 
according to this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
-  Provisional measures : Temporary measures adopted by the Permanent 
Committee, during the investigation where 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 whose 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. 
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  Article 5 
 
Measures 
 
Measures might be taken in the following cases: 
 1.  If it is determined that imports of the products under investigation into the Member States are 
dumped or benefited from a specific subsidy and caused material injury or threaten to cause 
material injury to an established GCC Industry or materially retard the establishment of a GCC 
industry, and there is a causal link.  
2.  If it is 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. 
 
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 greater than 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 an y 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 measur es against dumping, specific subsidy and increase 
in imports, extending, suspending, terminating, and 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. 
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  5.  Adopting the Internal Regulation  of the Bureau of the Technical Secretariat. 
 6.  Appointing the Director General of the Bureau of the 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. 
 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's work strategies 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 amendments to this Law and its Rules of Implementation. 
g. Proposing amendments to the Internal Regulati on of the Bureau of Technical Secretariat. 
h. Approving and amending its Internal Rules. 
i. Approving the proposed budget 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 the Technical Secretariat. 
l. Any other competence attributed by the Ministerial Committee. 
Article 10 
 
Bureau of the Technical Secretariat 
 
1.  Based on this Law, a Bureau of the Technical Secretariat for 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 shall have financial and administrative autonomy by means of 
a budget annexed to GCC General Secretariat's budget, and it is directed by a Director General. G/ADP/N/1/QAT/3 • G/SCM/N/1/QAT/3 • G/SG/N/1/QAT/3 
 
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  2.  Competences of the Bureau of the 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 to GCC producers and exporters who are 
facing dumping, subsidy and safeguards investigations in other countries and following the investigations' process in coordination with the concerned authorities of Member States. 
d. Participating in the activities of related organizations and international forums. 
e. Providing quarterly reports to the Permanent Committee containing information and 
statistics regarding the activities of the
 Bureau of the Technical Secretariat 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 Bureau of the Technical Secretariat and 
executing it upon its approval. 
i. Working on developing knowledge  and raising Member States' awareness on 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 Committee and Permanent Committee. 
Article 11 
 
Administrative and Judicial Review 
 
1.  Any interested party who participated in the investigation and 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 with 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 every 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 persons and authorities are not allowed to disclose such information without prior written permission from the party who 
submitted or disclosed this informatio n to the GCC Judicial Commission.  
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  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 a 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. 
 
Article 15 
 
Entry into Force 
 This Law shall enter into force on 1 January 2004. Member States must publish it in the Official Gazette. 
 
  
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