Antidumping as Safeguard Policy

Finger, J. Michael ; Ng, Francis ; Wangchuk, Sonam

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ANTIDUMPING;    ANTIDUMPING CASES;    ANTIDUMPING DETERMINATIONS;    ANTIDUMPING DUTIES;    ANTIDUMPING DUTY;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2730
RP-ID  :  WPS2730

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Antidumping is by far the most prevalentinstrument applied by countries to impose new importrestrictions. In the 1980s antidumping was used mainly by ahandful of industrial countries. More recently developingcountries have used it increasingly often. Since the WorldTrade Organization (WTO) Agreements went into effect in1995, developing countries have initiated 559 antidumpingcases, developed countries 463 (through June 2000). Perdollar of imports ten developing countries have initiated atleast five times as many antidumping cases as the UnitedStates. Even so, the WTO community continues to take upantidumping as if it were a specialized instrument. Inreality, present WTO rules allow it to be applied in anyinstance of politically troubling imports. The authors arguethat, as a "pressure valve" to help maintain anopen trade policy, antidumping has serious weaknesses: Itstechnical strictures do not distinguish between instancesthat advance rather than harm the national economicinterest. And its politics of branding foreigners as unfairstrengthens rather than mutes pressures against liberalization.