Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009
This paper examines the evolving, cross-country use of antidumping, safeguard, and countervailing duty policies -- temporary trade barriers (TTBs) -- over the period 1990-2009. The author constructs two new measures of imported products subject to...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/09/12811967/taking-stock-antidumping-safeguards-countervailing-duties-1990-2009 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19912 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the evolving,
cross-country use of antidumping, safeguard, and
countervailing duty policies -- temporary trade barriers
(TTBs) -- over the period 1990-2009. The author constructs
two new measures of imported products subject to the
combined use of these TTBs before applying these measures to
new data drawn from the World Bank's Temporary Trade
Barriers Database. The research establishes a number of
facts regarding trends in historical use to benchmark
against policy activity during the global economic crisis of
2008-2009. The 2008-2009 economic shock mostly accentuates
patterns and trends already visible in the pre-crisis data:
e.g., while the major users of such policies overall
combined to increase the product lines subject to TTBs by 25
percent during the crisis, this was driven almost entirely
by developing economies which increased their product
coverage by 40 percent. On the export side, a previously
unidentified feature of the data is that a much larger share
of China's exports to other developing economies is
subject to foreign-imposed antidumping than its exports to
developed economies. The evidence confirms this feature is
shared by a number of other major developing economy
exporters, deepening concern that these discriminatory trade
barriers are increasingly a "South-South" phenomenon. |
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