Since March 2006, the EC (then EU) applied an antidumping measure on the footwear with uppers of leathers (FUL) imported from Vietnam; the measure (10% of duty) expired the last 31 March, as no producers located in the EU presented any request to the EU Commission for its continuation

The underlying motivation for filing an anti-dumping petition is that some shock has disrupted the previous equilibrium. Moreover, these shocks need to be persistent for an anti-dumping petition to be both feasible and appropriate.

This paper examines the evolving, cross-country use of antidumping, safeguard, and countervailing duty policies—temporary trade barriers (TTBs)—over the period 1990-2009.

Antidumping: antidumping has become an important issue not only among those developed WTO members but also among those developing WTO members. To address the issue, the author begins describing different types of anti-circumvention measures.

The Obama administration has proposed changing several Commerce Department antidumping procedures. Those changes would expand the scope for findings of dumping and precipitate a surge in antidumping actions. The evolution of U.S. antidumping policy is marked by distinct inflection points corresponding to legal and administrative changes favorable to protection-seekers. I

The provision of subsidies in different forms (e.g., export subsidies, domestic subsidies, production subsidies or decoupled subsidies, tax relieves) to help local entities realize a competitive advantage vis-à-vis foreign competitors is widely practiced across the globe. While subsidies represent an important instrument in pursuing domestic policy goals and redistribution, the distortions caused by them is a well-known phenomenon.

The United States use of “zeroing” in its antidumping procedures has become a political flash point threatening some legitimacy of the WTO’s dispute settlement system. This paper provides a positive analysis of the zeroing issue, explains how it has evolved and who is likely to be affected by it.

Over the past 25 years the practice of anti-dumping has emerged as the most widespread impediment to trade. Though most of the protectionist measures adopted by countries, such as tariffs, subsidies etc. have been brought under the umbrella of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) /World Trade Organisation (WTO) discipline, however it included a number of provisions that countries to impose new ones.

This new monograph series is intended to provide a point of convergence for high quality, original work on various aspects of international economic and WTO law, ranging from established subject matter, such as international agricultural trade or the application of core trade disciplines such as MFN, to cross-cutting issues involving the interaction of international standards in the fields of investment, tax, competition, food safety and consumer protection with international trade law or the relationship of horizontal exceptions such as the general exception to domestic regulatory barriers.

The United States and other countries enforce their antidumping regulations in roughly the same way. There is a difference, however. The United States–but not other countries--now uses ‘zeroing’ in its determination of whether imports are dumped. The use of ‘zeroing’ will almost always increase the level of any antidumping duty, and will sometimes create a duty where none would have been imposed, had the methodology not been used.