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Antidumping Measures under Review
Antidumping actions are widely criticised for being used as a protective device rather than
as a means of controlling unfair trade practices. Michael Davenport discusses plaints
and proposals for change brought forward by the affected exporting countries in the current
GATlround. Phedon Nicolaides analyses the antidumping policy of the munity
which has recently been the butt of particularly heavy criticism.
Michael Davenport*
The Economics of Antidumping and the Uruguay Round
A number of writers have discussed the use of Table 1 brings the data on initiations up to mid 1989.
antidumping actions as a protective device? This use These data suggest some decline in antidumping activity
has been made easier by the lack of precision in Article VI since the years of 1982 to 1985 (when initiations averaged
of the GATT and the GATT Dumping Code. Each of the 221 per year). There could be a number of explanations.
principal users of antidumping actions argues that its own Exporting firms may have "learnt their lesson" and
regulations are consistent with the GAT'[. This is contested consciously priced their exports at levels high enough to
by Japan and the NICs who are arguing within the context avoid provoking plaints, they may have
of the Uruguay Round negotiationsthat national (including found ways of circum