Regulation on Trade Measures

Learning Objectives

This chapter is to help students understand:

• 1. Basic purpose of regulating dumping activities under the WTO Anti-dumping agreement;

• 2. Complicated issues in making objective anti-dumping investigations;

• 3. Importance of definition of domestic industry in determining injury to domestic industry caused by dumped imports;

• 4. Factors to be considered for proper anti-dumping investigations;

• 5. Requirements for challenging government subsidies under the multilateral trading system or to be countervailed by importing countries;

• 6. Requirements for imposing safeguards by damaged member countries.