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discriminatory trade restrictions against China during its pre-accession period led to Chinese exports surging to alternative markets … imposed on Chinese exports to two of its largest destination markets over the 1992-2001 period. Perhaps surprisingly, we find … exports to alternative destinations. To the contrary, we provide evidence that such import restrictions may have a chilling …
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examining the relationship between US AD duties (ADDs) with Japanese exports to the US and EU over the 1992-2001 period. We … first examine the trade destruction and trade diversion associated with Japanese exports to the US market resulting from US … effect of these US policies on Japanese exports to the EU. We document sizable trade deflection and trade depression in the …
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This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States. We separate the capacity for retaliation into two channels: (i) the capacity for foreign government retaliation under the dispute settlement procedures of the GATT/WTO system,...
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part of its 2001 WTO accession. With respect to China's exports, we examine data on WTO members' use of antidumping and … against China's exports by substituting use of new import-restricting "China-safeguard" policy instruments. Next, with respect …
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Two of the most important trade policy developments to take place since the 1980s are the expansion of preferential trade agreements and temporary trade barriers, such as antidumping, safeguards, and countervailing duties. Despite the empirical importance of preferential trade agreements and...
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This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the ‘trade’ that countries fight about under WTO dispute settlement. It characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and...
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We examine how theoretical and quantitative economic analysis has and can be used in this stage of the DSU process. First, we identify, characterize, and categorize the major classes of disputes e.g., those affecting import protection versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger...
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Chinese exports to third markets? We examine this question by drawing on a newly constructed data set of U.S. and EU product …-level import restrictions on Chinese trade imposed between 1992 and 2001, and we estimate their impact on Chinese exports to … exports surging to third markets. To the contrary, there is weak evidence of a chilling effect on China's exports to third …
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While the original justification of the antidumping laws in the industrial economies was to protect domestic consumers against predation by foreign suppliers, by the early 1990s the laws and their use had evolved so much that the opposite concern arose. Rather than attacking anti-competitive...
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The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports, (ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticities, and (iii) decrease with the variance of imports. We find US import policy during...
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