METI-RIETI International Seminar

Recent State of Play on Anti-dumping and Other Trade Remedy Measures: With overviews of Brazil and Japan (Handouts)

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  • Time and Date: 14:00-17:00, Wednesday, November 4, 2015
  • Venue: RIETI's seminar room (METI Annex 11th floor, 1121), 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Handouts

Opening Remarks

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TAKADA Shuzo (Director-General, Trade Control Department, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI

Presentation

"Anti-dumping: What is it, who does it?"

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Jesse G. KREIER (Counsellor, World Trade Organization)

Bio

Jesse G. Kreier is a counsellor and legal officer in the Rules Division of the Word Trade Organization (WTO). Since joining the WTO Secretariat in 1992, Mr. Kreier has served as a legal officer to numerous dispute settlement panels, and currently supervises dispute settlements arising under the WTO Rules agreements (Agreements on Anti-Dumping, Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Safeguards, and Trade in Civil Aircraft). He is also the secretary of the Negotiating Group on Rules, which is the body responsible for the Doha Development Agenda's negotiations on anti-dumping, subsidies and countervailing measures and fisheries subsidies. Currently, he is also the Secretary to the Anti-Dumping Technical Group, the Anti-Dumping Committee's Working Group on Implementation, the Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures and the Working Group on State Trading Enterprises. From 1987 to 1992, Mr. Kreier was in private legal practice in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in international trade regulation. Mr. Kreier holds a J .D. degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University. He is admitted to the Bar in California and the District of Columbia.

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"Recent Developments on the Brazilian Trade Remedies System"

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Marco Cesar Saraiva DA FONSECA (Director, Department of Trade Remedies, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil)

Bio

Marco da Fonseca is a chemical engineer graduate from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2003, he received a law degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. In the same year, he was admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association. He also received a specialization degree in trade remedies from Getulio Vargas Foundation. He is married and has two children.
He started his career at the state-owned Banco do Brasil. In 1987, he joined the former Brazilian Foreign Trade Bureau, where he worked at the division of export promotion and the division of advisory and planning, which was in charge of supporting the Mercosur negotiations. In 1995, he joined the group responsible for establishing the Brazilian Department of Trade Remedies. In 2009, he was appointed as deputy director and became the head of the department in 2014. He has lectured in different programs devoted to training new investigators. He has also participated actively in several negotiating forums such as the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), Latin American Integration Association (LAIA), and the WTO's Negotiating Group on Rules (NGR).

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"Trade Remedies in Japan: With focus on anti-dumping measures"

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OTA Tomoko (Director, Office for Trade Remedy Investigations, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI)

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Tomoko Ota has served as the director of the Office for Trade Remedy Investigations, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) since 2013. She has been working on WTO issues since 2008. As a deputy director of the Multilateral Trade System Department, she was engaged in the WTO Doha Round negotiations, first in the Non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations and then the Rules negotiations. In 2010, she was appointed as a counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. In that capacity, she participated in the WTO Doha Round negotiations, various dispute settlement cases, Committee works, and other WTO activities. Since joining METI in 1995, she has worked in the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, and others. Ms. Ota graduated from the University of Tokyo (B.S. in Chemistry), received a Master degree from the Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo (M.S. in Chemistry), and a Master in Public Affairs (M.P.A.) degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

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Panel Discussion

Moderator and Panelist:

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KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Law, Sophia University)

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Tsuyoshi Kawase (LL.B, Keio University, Japan; LL.M, Georgetown University, United States) is a professor at the Faculty of Law, Sophia University, as well as a faculty fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). Before joining Sophia University in 2007, Professor Kawase was formerly an associate professor at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University (2004-07), a fellow at RIETI (2003-2004), and an assistant/associate professor at Kobe University of Commerce (1994-2001). He also was a deputy director of the Multilateral Trading System Department of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, representing the Government of Japan in several World Trade Organization (WTO) cases and negotiations (2001-2003). Currently Prof. Kawase also serves as a member of Subcommittee on Trade Remedies, Industrial Structure Council, METI, Government of Japan; Faculty Fellow, RIETI.
His research expertise covers international economic law, in particular, WTO law and other international trade agreements, and international investment law.
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Panelists (in order of appearance):

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FUJII Kojiro (Attorney-at-Law (admitted in Japan/New York), Nishimura & Asahi)

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Kojiro Fujii graduated from the University of Tokyo in 2004. After serving as legal apprentice in the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, he joined Nishimura & Asahi, the largest law firm in Japan, in 2005. Also, he worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington D.C. from 2011-2012, and was appointed as deputy director of the Multilateral Trade System Department, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) from 2012-2014.
He served as a committee member for the Study Group of International Investment Arbitration at METI in 2008-2009, and currently serves as a committee member of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan's Study Group on Energy and Law (2014-) and a committee member of the METI's Study Group on WTO Jurisprudence (2014-).
Mr. Fujii holds an LL.M. in Trade Regulations from New York University School of Law, where he was a Hauser Global Scholar, and was awarded the Frank T. Diersen Prize and Betty Bock Prize in Competition Policy.

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MIYAZAKI Hiroshi (General Manager, Head of Div., Trade Administration Div., Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation)

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Hiroshi Miyazaki joined Nippon Steel Corporation Production Scheduling Div., Yawata Works in 1985. He served as the assistant manager, Coated Sheet Dept., Export Div. II (1993), the assistant manager, General Administration Div. (1996), the manager, Nippon Steel U.S.A., Inc. (1999), and the manager, Global Marketing Div. (2002). After the integration to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, he served as the general manager, trade relations & external affairs, Global Marketing Administration & Planning Div. (2012), the general manager, head of div., Global Marketing Administration & Planning Div. (2014), and the general manager, head of div., Trade Administration Div. (2015).

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Jesse G. KREIER (Counsellor, World Trade Organization)

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Marco Cesar Saraiva DA FONSECA (Director, Department of Trade Remedies, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil)

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OTA Tomoko (Director, Office for Trade Remedy Investigations, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI)