<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>As the importance of tariffs in international trade has declined with the reduction of tariff rates under the GATT/WTO programs of multilateral trade liberalization, most governments prefer to protect domestic industries from foreign competitors through a variety of non-tariff barriers. Antidumping actions have recently become the world's biggest trade impediment due to their specific features and the antidumping activity of new users. Since China has become the major engine of world trade growth in recent years, it also has become the largest anti-dumping target in the world. However, the present world competition situation implies that world trade liberalization might arouse regional trade friction. The objective of this research is to identify whether China's WTO accession changed China's situation with regard to EU antidumping actions. The research analysis empirically proved that trade liberalization could partly affect the EU's antidumping actions against Chinese exports and the higher degree of industrial concentricity becomes a motive to increase the EU's antidumping activities against China.</p></abstract>

As the importance of tariffs in international trade has declined with the reduction of tariff rates under the GATT/WTO programs of multilateral trade liberalization, most governments prefer to protect domestic industries from foreign competitors through a variety of non-tariff barriers. Antidumping actions have recently become the world's biggest trade impediment due to their specific features and the antidumping activity of new users. Since China has become the major engine of world trade growth in recent years, it also has become the largest anti-dumping target in the world. However, the present world competition situation implies that world trade liberalization might arouse regional trade friction. The objective of this research is to identify whether China's WTO accession changed China's situation with regard to EU antidumping actions. The research analysis empirically proved that trade liberalization could partly affect the EU's antidumping actions against Chinese exports and the higher degree of industrial concentricity becomes a motive to increase the EU's antidumping activities against China.

The EU's Antidumping Actions Against Chinese Products

International Journal of Management and Economics

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As the importance of tariffs in international trade has declined with the reduction of tariff rates under the GATT/WTO programs of multilateral trade...

The EU's Antidumping Actions Against Chinese Products

Published Online: Oct 17, 2014

Page range: 152 - 168

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2014-0008

Keywords
antidumping, China, multilateral trade liberalization, industrial concentricity

© 2013 Yinan Liu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The EU's Antidumping Actions Against Chinese Products

Published Online: Oct 17, 2014

Page range: 152 - 168

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2014-0008

Keywordsantidumping, China, multilateral trade liberalization, industrial concentricity

© 2013 Yinan Liu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
antidumping, China, multilateral trade liberalization, industrial concentricity