The Trade Effects of Antidumping Investigations

9311703 Staiger由于反倾销法的使用和滥用现已成为多边和双边贸易谈判的中心问题，因此，尽可能充分了解现行反倾销法对贸易自由流动的影响尤为重要。在这个项目中，研究了1980-1985年期间美国反倾销调查的决定因素和影响。本研究并不仅仅关注反倾销税，而是更广泛地考虑反倾销法，特别关注反倾销程序对进口和国内产出的持续调查影响，以及这种影响是否足够重要，以鼓励提交请愿书，如果没有这些影响，就不值得进行。该项目包括反倾销法的这些更广泛的方面，以便更准确地评估反倾销请愿的决定因素和影响，并评估最近关于反倾销法的理论工作提出的几个假设。本研究的一个新颖方面将是按照最近的经济理论提出的思路，理清反倾销调查过程的各个阶段对进口和国内产出的影响。＊＊＊

9311703 Staiger With the use and abuse of antidumping law now a central concern of both multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations, it is especially important to gain as full an understanding as possible of the impact of existing antidumping laws on the free flow of trade. In this project, the determinants and the effects of antidumping investigations in the United States over the period 1980-1985 are examined. Rather than focusing primarily on antidumping duties alone, this research considers antidumping law more broadly, paying particular attention to the on-going investigation effects of antidumping procedures on imports and domestic output, and to whether such effects could be sufficiently important to encourage filing of petitions that, absent these effects, would not be worth pursuing. The project includes these broader aspects of antidumping law in an effort both to assess more accurately the determinants and the effects of antidumping petitions as well as to evaluate several hypotheses suggested by recent theoretical work on antidumping law. A novel aspect of this research will be to disentangle the effects on imports and domestic output of the various phases of the antidumping investigation process along the lines suggested by recent economic theory. ***