How to Win in Trade Disputes

Professional Workshop on How to Win in Trade Disputes: Navigating Anti-Dumping, Countervailing Duties and Safeguards Under WTO and FTAs

Global trade tensions pose considerable challenges for small countries that are highly dependent on foreign trade, such as Cambodia.

Exports of local enterprises can easily be entangled in anti-dumping or countervailing procedures in their export markets as protectionist measures are on the rise, and regional economies are affected by the wider implications of the US–China trade war and EU–US tensions.

Solar panels, electric vehicles, agricultural products, paper folders, mattresses, bicycles and car parts are just some of the recent trade remedy discussions and proceedings that have impacted Cambodia, directly or indirectly. However, defensively, Cambodia has yet to take its own trade remedy measures to protect its market from unfair trade practices.

This highly practical briefing uses examples and case studies to explain how trade remedies affect your local or export position, and what measures you can take to protect yourself from losing market share.

Course Highlights

• Current and potential trade disputes affecting Cambodia: Countries, claims and remedies

• What evidence does the EU use to impose anti-dumping duties on Cambodian products? How to preempt problems?

• Case study: How to win or lose a countervailing challenge – solar panel measures enacted by the US

• Lessons learned from the case of Chinese/Cambodian bicycles exported to the EU

• Case study: Paper folders produced in Cambodia and the problem of transnational subsidies

• How Anti-Circumvention really works: Preparing compliance documentation

• Case study: Safeguarding measures – Conditions for WTO members to impose safeguards

• Practical examples: What is the protection under Cambodia’s Law on Trade Remedies (and what is still missing)?

• Which Cambodian laws and regulations are problematic from a WTO and FTA perspective?

Venue: TBD (To be decided)

Date: Friday, 13th February 2026 

Time: 9 am to 11 am  

Tickets: USD $25 Members, $35 Non-members

About the Trainer

Edwin Vanderbruggen is a Senior Partner at Andersen in Cambodia and Vietnam, and VDB Loi in Myanmar and Laos, Andersen collaborating firms. With over 30 years of experience, he has advised governments, multinationals and development institutions across Southeast Asia and lectures at the Foreign Trade University in Vietnam on international economic law.

For further details, contact Mr Vannrithy VAN:

Email: market.analyst3@eurocham-cambodia.org

Phone: +855 (0) 10 887 950

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