Press Release: WTO secretariat reports further declines in both new anti-dumping investigations and new final anti-dumping measures

The WTO Secretariat reported that during the period 1 July-31 December 2005, the number of initiations of new anti-dumping investigations and the number of new measures applied continued their previously-reported downward trends, with 2005 marking the fourth consecutive year of declines in new initiations, and the second in new measures.