The Trade Effects of U.S. Antidumping Actions

Thomas Prusa

Chapter 3 in Economic Effects of Antidumping, 2021, pp 21-43 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Even though tariff rates fell throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, there is growing consensus that the overall level of protection in the United States rose during this period. For instance, Bhagwati (1988, 43) states, “The downward trend in trade restrictions resulting from declining tariffs was rudely interrupted in the mid-1970s,” and Nivala (1993) points out that between 1975 and 1985 the volume of U.S. import trade affected by some form of trade barriers doubled. In fact, from a historical perspective, what is surprising is not that the long postwar period of trade liberalization was interrupted (at least temporarily) but that the era of trade liberalization lasted so long…

Keywords: Antidumping; Trade Effects; USA; US; Trade Protection; Trade Barriers; Temporary Trade Barriers; Pricing Behaviour; Antidumping Law; Law; Cost-Based Trade Policy; Macroeconomy; Cumulation; ITC Decision-making; WTO; Safeguard Protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Chapter: The Trade Effects of U.S. Antidumping Actions (1997)
Working Paper: The Trade Effects of U.S. Antidumping Actions (1996)
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