Agriculture is not an extremely large user of AD provisions, but over the last decade has accounted for 5-6 percent of all cases filed. This is a small number, but it should be compared to the size of the agricultural sector in the overall economy and overall world trade. Using the developed...

In the analysis of bilateral trade flows, reported trade of zero or missing observations are quite common and this is a problem when estimating log-linear gravity equations. This has caused many researchers to either ignore the zero trade flows or to replace the zero with a small positive...

A special safeguard mechanism is an attractive policy tool for low-income importing countries because it is automatic and does not require an injury test. Exporters might accept a safeguard for low-income countries if it results in larger tariff cuts than in its absence. The effects of a special...