Shaima F. A. Methods and Procedures for Anti- Commercial Dumping

Abstract

The research deals with one of the vital topics that touches the practical and economic
consumer reality of the state and society in terms of providing protection for national
products, as well as providing consumer products within standard specifications that reflect
on the individual's income and economic well-being. The most prominent aspects of the
research are how to combat dumping trade, especially what is related to it by methods and
providing measures for such protection. As is well known to everyone, the openness of Iraq to
global trade and its entry into the field of free trade when took part in the GATT antidumping agreement held in 1994 and its approval under the Iraqi Products Protection Law
No. 11 of 2010 and instructions to facilitate the implementation of this law to keep pace with
developed countries in Protecting its economy as well as using international tools to counter
dumping operations. And after imposing certain methods through imports entering the
country from foreign countries with weak local production in quantity and quality, and even
in terms of capital, coinciding with the lack of adequate protection, which made Iraq the
weakest party in the face of the dumping methods that these countries play with different
purposes of following These methods, clearly negatively impacting the industry and local
production, may often reach paralysis of those industries, which in turn was reflected in the
economic level represented by the delay in the local industry, as well as the impact on the
social level, causing it in many cases to close factories and lay off or reduce From the size of
the labor force .