needed in the investigation process, to raise assessment standards and abate suspicions of anti-dumping protectionism …Anti-dumping rules are flexible and open to political bias. In the past ten years, EU investigating institutions have … been biased towards the imposition of measures. The European Commission claims that all anti-dumping investigations are …

While antidumping laws were originally developed as the international trade analogue of domestic competition or … justification for modern antidumping practice remains founded on the bedrock of countering “unfair” trading practices and preserving … competitive markets. Consistent with this formal rationale, antidumping law has been replaced by competition policy mechanisms in …

GATT'94) with anti-dumping investigations carried out by and against the EU. It has been usual to suppose that WTO Members …, the impact of geopolitical factors, the extent of protectionism and malpractices in the review phase, has scarcely been … examined. Is it true that anti-dumping instruments are being misused in view of the flexible rules of the Anti-dumping …

This paper examines the impact of preferential trade agreements on the duration of antidumping protection. It employs a … original antidumping determination, and the second step estimates the impact of preferential trade agreement membership on the … duration of duties. Several key findings emerge from the analysis. Most importantly, the duration of antidumping protection is …

appreciations in bilateral exchange rates led to substantial increases in antidumping and related forms of import protection …