Antidumping and Market Competition : Implications for Emerging Economies

While the original justification of the antidumping laws in the industrial economies was to protect domestic consumers against predation by foreign suppliers, by the early 1990s the laws and their use had evolved so much that the opposite concern arose. Rather than attacking anti-competitive behavior, dumping complaints by domestic firms were being used to facilitate collusion among suppliers and enforce cartel arrangements. This paper examines the predation and anti-competitiveness issues from the perspective of the "new users" of antidumping -- the major emerging economies for which antidumping is now a major tool in the trade policy arsenal. The paper examines these concerns in light of important ways in which the world economy and international trading system have been changing since the early 1990s, including more firms and more countries participating in international trade, but also more extensive links among suppliers and consumers through multinational firm activity and vertical specialization.

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Main Authors:	McCulloch, Rachel, Bown, Chad P.
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012-09
Subjects:	AGGREGATE TRADE, AGGREGATE TRADE FLOWS, AGGRESSIVE TRADE POLICY, ANTI-DUMPING CASE, ANTIDUMPING, ANTIDUMPING ACTIONS, ANTIDUMPING BEING, ANTIDUMPING CASES, ANTIDUMPING DUTIES, ANTIDUMPING DUTY, ANTIDUMPING FILINGS, ANTIDUMPING LAWS, ANTIDUMPING MEASURES, ANTIDUMPING PETITIONS, ANTIDUMPING POLICIES, ANTIDUMPING POLICY, ANTIDUMPING RULES, ANTITRUST AUTHORITIES, ANTITRUST LAW, ANTITRUST LAWS, ANTITRUST POLICY, APPAREL, APPAREL EXPORTS, APPLIED TARIFF, BARRIERS TO ENTRY, CARTEL, COLLUSION, COMPETITION RULES, COMPETITIVE MARKETS, COMPETITIVENESS, COMPETITIVENESS CONCERNS, CONSUMERS, COUNTERVAILING DUTIES, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DISPUTE SETTLEMENT, DOMESTIC ANTIDUMPING LAW, DOMESTIC COMPETITION, DOMESTIC COMPETITORS, DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES, DOMESTIC INDUSTRY, DOMESTIC MARKET, DOMESTIC MARKETS, DOMESTIC PRODUCERS, DOMESTIC SUPPLIERS, ECONOMIC EFFECTS, ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION, ECONOMIC RELATIONS, ECONOMIC RESEARCH, ECONOMIC THOUGHT, ECONOMICS, ELASTICITY, ELASTICITY OF DEMAND, EMERGING MARKET, EMERGING MARKETS, EUROPEAN UNION, EXPORT GROWTH, EXPORT INCENTIVES, EXPORT MARKET, EXPORT MARKETS, EXPORT PRICE, EXPORT PRICES, EXPORT QUANTITIES, EXPORT SALES, EXPORT SUPPLY, EXPORTERS, EXPORTING COUNTRIES, EXPORTING COUNTRY, EXPORTS, FAIR, FIXED COST, FIXED COSTS, FOREIGN COMPETITION, FOREIGN COMPETITORS, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, FOREIGN EXPORTERS, FOREIGN FIRM, FOREIGN FIRMS, FOREIGN MARKET, FOREIGN PRODUCER, FOREIGN PRODUCERS, FOREIGN SOURCES, FOREIGN SUPPLIERS, FREE TRADE, GDP, GDP PER CAPITA, GLOBAL ECONOMY, GLOBAL TRADE, HOME MARKET, IMPERFECT COMPETITION, IMPORT COMPETITION, IMPORT PENETRATION, IMPORT PRODUCTS, IMPORT PROTECTION, IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, IMPORTED PRODUCTS, IMPORTING COUNTRIES, IMPORTING COUNTRY, INCOME, INDUSTRIAL ECONOMIES, INDUSTRIAL POLICY, INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES, INJURIOUS DUMPING, INTERMEDIATE INPUTS, INTERMEDIATE PRODUCTS, INTERNATIONAL BANK, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, INTERNATIONAL LAW, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM, MANAGED TRADE, MARGINAL COST, MARKET COMPETITION, MARKET CONDITIONS, MARKET ECONOMIES, MARKET FORCES, MARKET POWER, MARKET PRICE, MARKET SHARE, MARKET STRUCTURE, MATERIAL INJURY, MONOPOLY, MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, MULTINATIONAL FIRM, MULTINATIONAL FIRMS, NATIONAL ANTIDUMPING LAWS, OIL IMPORTS, OPENNESS, ORGANIZATIONAL FORM, PATENTS, PERFECT COMPETITION, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY TOOL, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POTENTIAL BENEFITS, PREDATORY PRICING, PRICE DISCRIMINATION, PRICE OF IMPORTS, PRODUCTION COSTS, PRODUCTION PROCESS, PROFIT MARGIN, PROTECTION CAN, PROTECTIONISM, PROTECTIONIST DEVICE, PROTECTIONIST PRESSURES, PUBLIC RELATIONS, QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS, SAFEGUARD ACTION, SAFEGUARD ACTIONS, SAFEGUARD PROTECTION, SALE, SALES, SPREAD, SUBSTITUTE, SUBSTITUTES, SUBSTITUTION, SUPPLIER, SUPPLY CHAIN, SUPPLY CHAINS, TARIFF EQUIVALENTS, TARIFF PROTECTION, TARIFF RATES, TARIFF REDUCTIONS, TOTAL REVENUE, TOTAL SALES, TRADE AGREEMENTS, TRADE BARRIER, TRADE BARRIERS, TRADE EFFECTS, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, TRADE MEASURES, TRADE PATTERN, TRADE POLICIES, TRADE POLICY, TRANSITION ECONOMY, TRIPLE DAMAGES, URUGUAY ROUND, VALUE OF IMPORTS, VERTICAL SPECIALIZATION, VOLUNTARY EXPORT RESTRAINTS, WORLD MARKET, WORLD PRICES, WORLD TRADE, WTO,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16725545/antidumping-market-competition-implications-emerging-economies https://hdl.handle.net/10986/12039
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