Anti-Dumping In International Trade And Research On How To Utilize The Countermeasures

Dumping and anti-dumping is a common phenomenon in international economic society. It has a long history and is changed with the development of world economy. Anti-dumping gradually turned to be a powerful tool for trade safeguard of importers as a result of reappearing the trade protectionism in the world range in 1970s. Although economic globality and trade freedom is an unreversed trend, the abused behaviors of free trade will bring great jeopardousness to world economy. Especially, the contradiction between dumping and anti-dumping of the developed countries and developing countries will be more drastic with the world market getting more and more saturated. As a result, Chinese enterprises will come through the impaction of both of dumping and anti-dumping.In this paper, on the theoretical basis of microeconomics, the author discusses the countermeasures to anti-dumping from foreign countries through investigating the actualities of current cases of anti-dumping in international trade. We will have to utilize the anti-dumping tactics to protect our national industries and domestic market so as to promote the development of Chinese foreign trades. Meanwhile, we should have the right cognition for anti-dumping and use it properly.The paper includes four chapters. In the first chapter, the author introduces the basal definitions of dumping and anti-dumping, their theoretical evolution, and the hotspot, common benefit, in anti-dumping. The economic effects of dumping and anti-dumping are analyzed in point of the microeconomics. The income and cost of anti-dumping are further studied in the second chapter. The third chapter illustrates the anti-dumping status, harms, and causes of foreign countries to China and brings forward some useful advices to protect national industries and domestic market via effective anti-dumping. Moreover, the authors points out how to correctly understand and utilize anti-dumping measures through evaluating the economic effect of first anti-dumping case in China.The main conclusions are as follows: The pervasive foreign commodities in China make a great harm to domestic market. So it is urgent for us to limit the dumping of foreign commodities. However, we had better set up a proper opinion for anti-dumping. The anti-dumping is concept closed related with the trend of economy. It will be necessary and effective if anti-dumping is used to develop the domestic industries from infantility to maturity at a certain period. On the contrary, it will lead to the tariff retorsions from other countries and worse the trade battle if we employ anti-dumping as a weapon for protectionism, which will turn into a perilous result finally.