Tunisia Challenges Morocco’s Notebook Tariffs in WTO Trade Dispute

This request was submitted last Wednesday to the WTO members, report several local media. Tunisia believes that Morocco has not acted in accordance with the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed in Marrakech in 1994.

Last December, the Tunisian Minister of Commerce had confirmed the filing of a complaint: "We are determined to pursue the procedure. The anti-dumping investigation against the school notebook should not have been opened by Morocco. There was neither dumping nor damage," he had declared in the columns of the newspaper L’Economiste.

A few months earlier, the Tunisian authorities had tried to find an amicable solution with Morocco and then issued "a request for consultation" with the WTO, without success.

It should be noted that in the first half of 2018, Morocco had imported some 5,000 tons of Tunisian notebooks.