Antidumping and Market Competition : Implications for Emerging Economies

Bown, Chad P. ; McCulloch, Rachel

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: AGGREGATE TRADE;    AGGREGATE TRADE FLOWS;    AGGRESSIVE TRADE POLICY;    ANTI-DUMPING CASE;    ANTIDUMPING;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-6197
RP-ID  :  WPS6197

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

While the original justification of theantidumping laws in the industrial economies was to protectdomestic consumers against predation by foreign suppliers,by the early 1990s the laws and their use had evolved somuch that the opposite concern arose. Rather than attackinganti-competitive behavior, dumping complaints by domesticfirms were being used to facilitate collusion amongsuppliers and enforce cartel arrangements. This paperexamines the predation and anti-competitiveness issues fromthe perspective of the "new users" of antidumping-- the major emerging economies for which antidumping is nowa major tool in the trade policy arsenal. The paper examinesthese concerns in light of important ways in which the worldeconomy and international trading system have been changingsince the early 1990s, including more firms and morecountries participating in international trade, but alsomore extensive links among suppliers and consumers throughmultinational firm activity and vertical specialization.