The Heterogeneous Effects of Trade Protection: A Study of US Antidumping Duties on Portland Cement

Maya Cohen-Meidan ()

Review of Industrial Organization, 2013, vol. 42, issue 4, 369-394

Abstract: For many traded products, high transportation and trade costs can lead to regionally segmented markets, which affect both the pattern of trade and the impact of trade policy. This paper studies the imposition of antidumping duties in the cement industry and finds striking regional variation in their impact on domestic prices, sales and imports. Duties that were imposed on Japanese producers that were shipping cement to the US West-Coast coastal markets led to imperfect substitution to other imports, which allowed domestic prices and production to increase. Imperfect substitution also occurred following duties that were imposed on Mexican producers that were shipping cement to the US Gulf of Mexico coastal markets. But in the US Southwest border markets, the same duties had no impact on the domestic prices of cement. I link the variation in responses across regions to hysteresis that was due to high exit costs. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: International trade; Trade policy; Andtidumping duties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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