Macroeconomic Conditions and Pressures for Protection Under Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws: Empirical Evidence from the United States

August 1, 1996

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Michael P. Leidy Macroeconomic Conditions and Pressures for Protection Under Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws: Empirical Evidence from the United States, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

Antidumping and countervailing duty procedures are governed by specific rules requiring both injury (by reason of imports) and dumping/subsidies, and thus might be expected to be less susceptible to pressures for protection arising from cyclical movements in the domestic macroeconomy. This paper investigates whether there is a connection between the state of domestic macroeconomic activity and pressures for protection under antidumping and countervailing duties. The evidence suggests that pressures for protection under these measures since the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade talks have advanced during periods of macroeconomic weakness and receded during periods of macroeconomic strength.

Subject: Antidumping, Foreign exchange, Imports, International trade, Labor, Real effective exchange rates, Trade barriers, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Antidumping, Constant term, Countervailing duty case, CVD duty, CVD measure, CVD petition, Dumping, Escape clause petition, Imports, Petition, Real effective exchange rates, Subsidy, Trade barriers, Unemployment rate, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

24
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Working Paper No. 1996/088
Stock No:

WPIEA0881996
ISBN:

9781451851113
ISSN:

1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 44, No. 1, March 1997.

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