On Settlement Procedures Of Anti-dumping Disputes

Anti-dumping is one of the controversial problems in the international trade field. Especially in recent years, with the fact that a great quantity of anti-dumping disputes increasing, the theory and reality boundary are engaged in an argument that whether the system of Anti-dumping should be abolished or not. The reason that Anti-dumping can cause so fierce disputes lies in its trade-protecting function since it comes into being. If the measures of Anti-dumping are abused, the healthy development of international trade will be seriously influenced, and the target of liberalism with world trade can not be realized. Relative to other relieve measures, anti-dumping can be put into practice more easily with simple procedures and gets effect quickly, thus it gets the favor of the European and American industrial circles, and also with this, it is being so easy to encounter other country's counter-measures. As more and more countries adopt anti-dumping measures, anti-dumping has become global tool, but there are great differences between these countries in explaining and applying the anti-dumping law, so a lot of disputes were aroused. Therefore, RTA (Regional Trade Agreements) with higher degree of the integration of economics (such as EU ) requests each member country inside the district to replace anti-dumping rules by competing policy, and allows member countries to organize an unify organization to adopt the same anti-dumping measures. This kind of mode becomes the future development trend in arranging the anti-dumping system to those RTA with lower degree of integration of economics (such as the NAFTA, MERCOSUR).The realization of unification of anti-dumping rules inside the district will make domestic industries,which will become a more huge benefits community to resist import competition, extend to the district organization from a country. It is good for RTA to raise its whole competition, and strengthen the economic power of member countries. But in the meantime, after RTA dismissing the anti-dumping measures between the district, member countries may adopt more anti-dumping measures to the third exporter country to alleviate fierce competition, which will cause more trade disputes and increase the burden of the DSB. All above, researching the settlement procedures of anti-dumping disputes in the RTA, inquiring they how to coordinate the members'benefits through the disputes settlement procedures and the norm usage of the anti-dumping measures, and learning from its successful experience , can not only ease off the burden of DSB, perfect WTO mechanism of anti-dumping dispute settlement, strengthen the binding force of the WTO anti-dumping rules, but also have important realistic meaning for China to solve the anti-dumping disputes under the RTA which it participates.