The Workshop aims to assist Asian
developing Members' investigating authorities to further develop their
technical capacity to conduct countervailing and safeguards investigations in a
fair and efficient manner, in conformity with WTO rules. Asian countries are
among the world's leading users of safeguard measures (amounting for more than
60% of all measures imposed since 2010), and most major Asian users have also begun
to use countervail or are considering to do so.