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Anti-dumping duties - What are the causes?

Elgan, Marta LU (2017) NEKH02 20162
Department of Economics
Abstract
When a company or country exports product to a lower price than the domestic market it is called dumping. The importing country is able to protect the domestic market by imposing anti-dumping duties. If this is done outside the rules the exporting country may file a complaint of anti-dumping to the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) at World Trade Organization (WTO). It is not known why some countries are more frequently involved in anti-dumping cases than others in the DSB. Some argues that the reason for this is that anti-dumping merely constitutes disguised protectionism.

The aim of this paper is, through a bilateral investigation, explore if protectionstic motives influence whether or not an importing country imposes up anti-dumping... (More)
When a company or country exports product to a lower price than the domestic market it is called dumping. The importing country is able to protect the domestic market by imposing anti-dumping duties. If this is done outside the rules the exporting country may file a complaint of anti-dumping to the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) at World Trade Organization (WTO). It is not known why some countries are more frequently involved in anti-dumping cases than others in the DSB. Some argues that the reason for this is that anti-dumping merely constitutes disguised protectionism.

The aim of this paper is, through a bilateral investigation, explore if protectionstic motives influence whether or not an importing country imposes up anti-dumping duties towards an exporting country. This is done by logit regression where the dependent variable constitutes either the occurrence of anti-dumping or not. This information was retrieved from the Global Anti-Dumping database (GAD) within The World Bank. This study concludes that there are protectionistic reasons for countries to impose anti-dumping duties. The prediction of an importers use of anti-dumping duties is most of all connected to the imported volume. (Less)
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author
Elgan, Marta LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKH02 20162
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Anti-dumping duty, protectionism, trade, logit regression
language
English
id
8898856
date added to LUP
2017-02-10 13:46:07
date last changed
2017-02-10 13:46:07
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  abstract     = {{When a company or country exports product to a lower price than the domestic market it is called dumping. The importing country is able to protect the domestic market by imposing anti-dumping duties. If this is done outside the rules the exporting country may file a complaint of anti-dumping to the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) at World Trade Organization (WTO). It is not known why some countries are more frequently involved in anti-dumping cases than others in the DSB. Some argues that the reason for this is that anti-dumping merely constitutes disguised protectionism.

The aim of this paper is, through a bilateral investigation, explore if protectionstic motives influence whether or not an importing country imposes up anti-dumping duties towards an exporting country. This is done by logit regression where the dependent variable constitutes either the occurrence of anti-dumping or not. This information was retrieved from the Global Anti-Dumping database (GAD) within The World Bank. This study concludes that there are protectionistic reasons for countries to impose anti-dumping duties. The prediction of an importers use of anti-dumping duties is most of all connected to the imported volume.}},
  author       = {{Elgan, Marta}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Anti-dumping duties - What are the causes?}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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