From Agreement to Application: A Cross-Country Analysis of Injury Determinations Under the WTO Antidumping Agreement

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Kara M. Reynolds_
American University
August 2006

Although the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Antidumping Agreementincludes rules that govern the application of antidumping duties,countries still have a great deal of latitude in how they decidewhether to impose this form of protection.

This research is one of the first papers to explore country andindustry specific differences in the determinants of antidumping injurydecisions. Using a random-coefficients probit model, I estimate theamount of variance in the marginal impact of particular characteristicson the probability of an affirmative injury determination. Iinvestigate to what extent this variance can be explained by specificcharacteristics of the investigating country. The results indicate thatthere is a great deal of inconsistency in injury decisions under thecurrent WTO Antidumping Agreement.