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 a...
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Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16725545/antidumping-market-competition-implications-emerging-economies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12039 |
Summary: | 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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