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Investigation on the Impact of US AD Measures during the “Catfish War” on Vietnamese Pangasius Exports
08/05/2015
The Vietnamese pangasius industry has faced AD measures imposed by the USA. This dispute between the USA and Vietnam is known as the "Catfish War". In the estimation, the paper found that although the anti-dumping taxes imposed on Vietnam pangasius, it is not so seriously problematic for exporters in the long-term.
Key issues regarding the EU’s concurrent imposition of AD and CVD on Chinese coated fine papers
08/05/2015
Chien-Huei Wu: Abstract This article uses the EU’s decision to simultaneously impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties against Chinese coated fine papers as a case study to illustrate the complexities involved in EU’s trade defence regime against products originating from nonmarket economies. Four specific issues are dealt with: analogue country, market economy treatment, individual treatment and double remedy. In examining the reasonableness of the European Commission’s choice of the analogue country, this article develops a two-step approach, firstly against the Basic AD Regulation and secondly against Article X:3 of the GATT 1994. In view of the positive results of the request for individual treatment, this article argues that the EU may pass the ―as applied‖ complainant in the WTO dispute settlement mechanism. With regard to the proposed amendment to the Basic AD Regulation, it may also pass the ―as such‖ complaint. In light of the fact that the EU is a third party taking the same position as the respondent in US – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties, this article explores the rationale behind the Commission’s determination to impose concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing duties since one single anti-dumping duty may provide sufficient level of protection.
Trade Deflection arising from U.S. AD Duties on Imported Shrimp
08/05/2015
Xiaojin Wang, Michael Reed
Abstract
We empirically test whether the investigation and impositions of U.S. antidumping duties in 2004 on imported shrimp distorts a named country's exports to third markets. We constructs a panel of bilateral, disaggregated product-level data for annual trade flows of subjected shrimp between the six named countries (Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Thailand, and Vietnam) and four major importers (EU, Indonesia, Japan, and Malaysia) between 1999 and 2010. Our results show that named countries’ trade flows were reoriented to other destination markets when U.S. anti-dumping duties were levied against their shrimp products.
