Antidumping: A problem in international trade

How Bad Is Antidumping? Evidence from Panel Data

“…Full results are available on request. 33 This is precisely the pattern found by Zanardi (2006), where both initiations and implementations by traditional users have declined over time while use by new users has increased dramatically. 34 Since our framework explicitly incorporates multilateral resistance, the overall impact of AD activity (both contemporaneous and cumulative) also depends on what happens in the other dyads.…”

“…Note that Zanardi (2006) provides information at the unilateral level by summarizing the investigations at the investigator country level as available from the GATT's supplement to its Basic Instruments and Selected Documents publication. While Zanardi's article is a rich source as well, it is not useful for our purpose due to the absence of country pair information for investigations.…”

“…A S with the wave of interest in the "new protection" in the 1970s, we are now observing a new wave of concern with a rapid increase in the use of "nontraditional" protectionist instruments (Prusa, 2001;Zanardi, 2006). Once again, the main culprit is contingent protection (primarily antidumping and countervailing duties, though voluntary export restraints-mainly coming from the safeguards processalso figured prominently in the 1970s).…”

“…Before turning to a discussion of the main issues, we can fix the essential facts drawing on an excellent paper by Zanardi (2006). Zanardi shows a strong upward trend in investigations and a more moderate rate of growth in the number of antidumping orders in place.…”

The Hazardous Effects of Antidumping

“…For almost four decades antidumping (AD) has been the most important form of discretionary protection, 1 outpacing all other forms of administered protection combined (Bhagwati 1989;Bown 2011;Zanardi 2006). AD duties have been shown to significantly reduce exports from named countries, 50%-60% on average (Prusa 2001).…”