Social Dumping and Trade Policy

Inefficient trade patterns: Excessive trade, cross-hauling and dumping

I study an example of a competitive environment in which trade occurs in a sequential manner. In this example, a country with a stable demand may suffer from trade with a country with unstable demand, there may be too much trade, a country may import and export the same good in the same period (cross-hauling) and dumping may occur. The timing of delivery is important. When delivery occurs befor...

South African Trade Policy Matters : Trade Performance and Trade Policy

South African trade policy has exerted a major influence on the composition and aggregate growth of trade. In the Apartheid period, trade protection seriously impeded both exports and imports, and the economy depended on favorable global commodity price trends to avoid running into an external constraint. South Africa developed a comparative advantage in capital-intensive primary and manufactur...

Social Dumping: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

unfair trading through dumping and anti- dumping methods in world trade organization

the wto is an international organization which arranges international commercial rules and disputes settlements. increasingly joining of countries to the wto and movement for freedom of commercial regime in industrial or developing countries are deniable testimonies for globalization. gradual reduction of tariff and competition in exports and internal markets by their advantages have jeopardize...

Anti-dumping: A Growing Problem in International Trade

FOR most of its 100 years of existence, anti-dumping (AD) was not nearly the problem that it is today. In fact, for most of its existence it is fair to say that AD could hardly have been called a problem for the international trading community. Over its first 70 years, AD was neither widely adopted nor were AD duties widely imposed by the handful of countries who were AD users. Over the last 30...