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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Main Author: Bown, Chad P.
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
WTO
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/09/12811967/taking-stock-antidumping-safeguards-countervailing-duties-1990-2009
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spelling okr-10986-199122021-04-23T14:03:52Z Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009 Bown, Chad P. ACCESS TO IMPORT ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL IMPORTS ANTIDUMPING ANTIDUMPING ACTION ANTIDUMPING DUTIES ANTIDUMPING POLICY AVERAGING BALANCE OF PAYMENTS BALANCE OF PAYMENTS CRISIS BENCHMARK BUSINESS CYCLE BUSINESS CYCLE FLUCTUATIONS CHANGES IN TRADE COMMERCE CONSTRUCTION CREDIT CURRENCY CUSTOMS UNION DEMAND DEMANDS DEPRESSION DEVALUATION DISPUTE SETTLEMENT DOMESTIC ECONOMIES DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES DOMESTIC INDUSTRY ECONOMIC CRISIS ECONOMIC EFFECTS ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIC SHOCK ECONOMIC WELFARE ECONOMIES ECONOMY EMERGING MARKET EXCHANGE RATE EXPORT GROWTH EXPORT SUBSIDY EXPORT SUPPLY EXPORTER EXPORTERS FINANCIAL CRISIS FORECASTS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN SOURCES FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT FUTURE RESEARCH GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM GLOBAL TRADE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES GRAVITY MODEL GROWTH RATE HIGH LEVELS IMPORT IMPORT DEMAND IMPORT DUTY IMPORT GROWTH IMPORT MARKETS IMPORT PROTECTION IMPORT TARIFFS IMPORT VALUE IMPORTS INDICATOR VARIABLE LIBERALIZATION MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS MACROECONOMIC FACTORS MARKET MARKET ACCESS MARKET ECONOMY MEASUREMENT MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS MULTILATERAL SYSTEM MULTIPLE POLICIES OUTCOMES POLITICAL ECONOMY PREFERENTIAL TRADE PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENT PREFERENTIAL TRADE ARRANGEMENTS PRICE PRODUCT PRODUCT MARKETS PRODUCTS QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS QUOTAS RATE OF GROWTH REAL GDP RECESSION RECESSIONS SAFEGUARD PROTECTION STOCK STOCKS SUBSIDIES SUBSIDIZATION SUPPLIER SUPPLY SUPPLY RESPONSES TARIFF TARIFF RATE TARIFF REDUCTIONS TARIFF SCHEDULE TIME HORIZON TOTAL EXPORTS TRADE TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE AGREEMENTS TRADE BARRIER TRADE BARRIERS TRADE DIVERSION TRADE EFFECTS TRADE FLOWS TRADE IMPACT TRADE IMPACTS TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE PATTERNS TRADE POLICY TRADE RESTRICTIVENESS TRADING PARTNER TRADING PARTNERS TRANSMISSION MECHANISM TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS TRENDS TYING TYING PRODUCT UNCERTAINTY UNDERVALUATION UNEMPLOYMENT UNILATERAL LIBERALIZATION UNILATERAL REDUCTION URUGUAY ROUND VALUE OF IMPORTS VARIABLES VOLATILITY VOLUNTARY EXPORT RESTRAINTS WELFARE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM WTO 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. 2014-09-02T17:04:45Z 2014-09-02T17:04:45Z 2010-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/09/12811967/taking-stock-antidumping-safeguards-countervailing-duties-1990-2009 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19912 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 5436 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic ACCESS TO IMPORT
ANNUAL GROWTH
ANNUAL IMPORTS
ANTIDUMPING
ANTIDUMPING ACTION
ANTIDUMPING DUTIES
ANTIDUMPING POLICY
AVERAGING
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS CRISIS
BENCHMARK
BUSINESS CYCLE
BUSINESS CYCLE FLUCTUATIONS
CHANGES IN TRADE
COMMERCE
CONSTRUCTION
CREDIT
CURRENCY
CUSTOMS UNION
DEMAND
DEMANDS
DEPRESSION
DEVALUATION
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
DOMESTIC ECONOMIES
DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES
DOMESTIC INDUSTRY
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ECONOMIC EFFECTS
ECONOMIC RESEARCH
ECONOMIC SHOCK
ECONOMIC WELFARE
ECONOMIES
ECONOMY
EMERGING MARKET
EXCHANGE RATE
EXPORT GROWTH
EXPORT SUBSIDY
EXPORT SUPPLY
EXPORTER
EXPORTERS
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FORECASTS
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FOREIGN SOURCES
FREE TRADE
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
FUTURE RESEARCH
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM
GLOBAL TRADE
GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
GRAVITY MODEL
GROWTH RATE
HIGH LEVELS
IMPORT
IMPORT DEMAND
IMPORT DUTY
IMPORT GROWTH
IMPORT MARKETS
IMPORT PROTECTION
IMPORT TARIFFS
IMPORT VALUE
IMPORTS
INDICATOR VARIABLE
LIBERALIZATION
MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS
MACROECONOMIC FACTORS
MARKET
MARKET ACCESS
MARKET ECONOMY
MEASUREMENT
MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS
MULTILATERAL SYSTEM
MULTIPLE POLICIES
OUTCOMES
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENT
PREFERENTIAL TRADE ARRANGEMENTS
PRICE
PRODUCT
PRODUCT MARKETS
PRODUCTS
QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
QUOTAS
RATE OF GROWTH
REAL GDP
RECESSION
RECESSIONS
SAFEGUARD PROTECTION
STOCK
STOCKS
SUBSIDIES
SUBSIDIZATION
SUPPLIER
SUPPLY
SUPPLY RESPONSES
TARIFF
TARIFF RATE
TARIFF REDUCTIONS
TARIFF SCHEDULE
TIME HORIZON
TOTAL EXPORTS
TRADE
TRADE AGREEMENT
TRADE AGREEMENTS
TRADE BARRIER
TRADE BARRIERS
TRADE DIVERSION
TRADE EFFECTS
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE IMPACT
TRADE IMPACTS
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRADE PATTERNS
TRADE POLICY
TRADE RESTRICTIVENESS
TRADING PARTNER
TRADING PARTNERS
TRANSMISSION MECHANISM
TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS
TRENDS
TYING
TYING PRODUCT
UNCERTAINTY
UNDERVALUATION
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNILATERAL LIBERALIZATION
UNILATERAL REDUCTION
URUGUAY ROUND
VALUE OF IMPORTS
VARIABLES
VOLATILITY
VOLUNTARY EXPORT RESTRAINTS
WELFARE
WORLD TRADING SYSTEM
WTO
spellingShingle ACCESS TO IMPORT
ANNUAL GROWTH
ANNUAL IMPORTS
ANTIDUMPING
ANTIDUMPING ACTION
ANTIDUMPING DUTIES
ANTIDUMPING POLICY
AVERAGING
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS CRISIS
BENCHMARK
BUSINESS CYCLE
BUSINESS CYCLE FLUCTUATIONS
CHANGES IN TRADE
COMMERCE
CONSTRUCTION
CREDIT
CURRENCY
CUSTOMS UNION
DEMAND
DEMANDS
DEPRESSION
DEVALUATION
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
DOMESTIC ECONOMIES
DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES
DOMESTIC INDUSTRY
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ECONOMIC EFFECTS
ECONOMIC RESEARCH
ECONOMIC SHOCK
ECONOMIC WELFARE
ECONOMIES
ECONOMY
EMERGING MARKET
EXCHANGE RATE
EXPORT GROWTH
EXPORT SUBSIDY
EXPORT SUPPLY
EXPORTER
EXPORTERS
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FORECASTS
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FOREIGN SOURCES
FREE TRADE
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
FUTURE RESEARCH
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM
GLOBAL TRADE
GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
GRAVITY MODEL
GROWTH RATE
HIGH LEVELS
IMPORT
IMPORT DEMAND
IMPORT DUTY
IMPORT GROWTH
IMPORT MARKETS
IMPORT PROTECTION
IMPORT TARIFFS
IMPORT VALUE
IMPORTS
INDICATOR VARIABLE
LIBERALIZATION
MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS
MACROECONOMIC FACTORS
MARKET
MARKET ACCESS
MARKET ECONOMY
MEASUREMENT
MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS
MULTILATERAL SYSTEM
MULTIPLE POLICIES
OUTCOMES
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENT
PREFERENTIAL TRADE ARRANGEMENTS
PRICE
PRODUCT
PRODUCT MARKETS
PRODUCTS
QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
QUOTAS
RATE OF GROWTH
REAL GDP
RECESSION
RECESSIONS
SAFEGUARD PROTECTION
STOCK
STOCKS
SUBSIDIES
SUBSIDIZATION
SUPPLIER
SUPPLY
SUPPLY RESPONSES
TARIFF
TARIFF RATE
TARIFF REDUCTIONS
TARIFF SCHEDULE
TIME HORIZON
TOTAL EXPORTS
TRADE
TRADE AGREEMENT
TRADE AGREEMENTS
TRADE BARRIER
TRADE BARRIERS
TRADE DIVERSION
TRADE EFFECTS
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE IMPACT
TRADE IMPACTS
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRADE PATTERNS
TRADE POLICY
TRADE RESTRICTIVENESS
TRADING PARTNER
TRADING PARTNERS
TRANSMISSION MECHANISM
TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS
TRENDS
TYING
TYING PRODUCT
UNCERTAINTY
UNDERVALUATION
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNILATERAL LIBERALIZATION
UNILATERAL REDUCTION
URUGUAY ROUND
VALUE OF IMPORTS
VARIABLES
VOLATILITY
VOLUNTARY EXPORT RESTRAINTS
WELFARE
WORLD TRADING SYSTEM
WTO
Bown, Chad P.
Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 5436
description 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.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Bown, Chad P.
author_facet Bown, Chad P.
author_sort Bown, Chad P.
title Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009
title_short Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009
title_full Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009
title_fullStr Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009
title_full_unstemmed Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009
title_sort taking stock of antidumping, safeguards, and countervailing duties, 1990-2009
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/09/12811967/taking-stock-antidumping-safeguards-countervailing-duties-1990-2009
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19912
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