Sunset reviews place a time limit on antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
If the responses are deemed inadequate or adequate there are varying implications for the continuation of the review and ultimately revocation of the order. The analysis covers sunset reviews initiated from July to December 1998. These were the first reviews conducted in the wake of the Uruguay Round Agreement Act, which changed the antidumping law by instituting sunset reviews. This comment primarily analyzes the paradox brought by this shift from State actors to non-State actors. The conundrum lies in that non-State actors are generally believed to foster democratic governance, however, at the same time these groups are wholly unaccountable to any sovereign and thus may act in ways which undermine democratic principles.