The rise of U.S. antidumping actions in historical perspective
By: Douglas Irwin.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10582; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10582.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Dumping (International trade) -- United States.
Description: "Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980.  This paper puts recent U.S.  antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century.  The conventional view that few antidumping cases existed prior to 1980 is not correct, although most did not result in the imposition of duties.  The increased number of cases in recent decades largely reflects petitions that target multiple source countries; the number of imported products involved has actually fallen since the mid 1980s.  The annual number of antidumping cases is influenced by the unemployment rate, the exchange rate, import penetration (closely related to the decline in average tariffs), and changes in the antidumping law and its enforcement in the early 1980s"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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