Tariffs versus anti-dumping duties

United States – Definitive Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties on Certain Products from China

Anti-dumping Duties and their Impact on Exporters: Firm Level Evidence from China

— Despite a dramatic rise in the instances of anti-dumping (AD) duties, their impact on the targeted firms is not clear. Using detailed firm level data we find robust evidence that the US AD duty led to over 12 (or five) percent decrease in labor productivity (or TFP) of targeted Chinese firms. We also find that firms with high initial export intensity experience both a higher decrease in expor...

Are Antidumping Duties an Antidote for Predation? Draft

Since price discrimination and selling below cost arise in the normal course of business and are usually legal for domestic firms, countering these practices by foreign firms provides a very weak rationale for antidumping duties. If antidumping duties were to provide a systematic defense against predation by foreign firms, however, a strong “fair-trade” justification would remain. This paper ad...

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...

Countervailing Duties, Antidumping Tariffs, and the Byrd Amendment: A Welfare Analysis*

This paper determines the effect that offset payments under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA also known as the “Byrd Amendment”) have on tariff levels that are lobbied for by U.S. producer groups. We derive the optimum antidumping tariff that would maximize the welfare of producers receiving CDSOA offset payments. We compare and contrast this newly derived “optimal antidumpin...