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Argentina lodges complaint against Peru with WTO over bio-diesel tariffs

Dec, 12, 2018 Posted by datamarnews

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Argentina has lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding Peru’s anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on its bio-diesel. The two countries failed to resolve a dispute over unfair competition allegations in 2016, causing Peru to slap tariffs on Argentina’s bio-diesel imports for five years.


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https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL8N1YA2WL

Argentina takes Peru to WTO in biodiesel row

GENEVA, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Argentina has launched a dispute at the World Trade Organization to contest Peru’s anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on Argentina’s exports of biodiesel, a WTO filing published on Wednesday showed.
Argentina’s complaint suggests the two countries have failed to settle a row that blew up in October 2016 when Peru slapped tariffs on imports of biodiesel from Argentina for a period of five years after complaints of unfair competition.

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