Government Responsibility To Improve Enterprises' Ability Of Defence Against Antidumping Lawsuits

In the year of 1979, Chinese enterprises, when exporting Saccharin Sodium to European Union, met antidumping lawsuits for the first time since liberation. To the year of 2009, it has been thirty years. During this period, more and more countries and economic zones have abused antidumping, which was used to protect fair trade initially, as a kind of barrier to trade. At the same period, China's economy has grew fast,as well as the volume of products exported from China has been increasingly huge, which lead to more and more antidumping investigations proposed by related foreign countries and economic zones. China has been the World's largest anti-dumping target for more than ten years. The number of antidumping cases initiated against China has been No.1 for more than ten years. Facing such situation, Chinese enterprises can't defend themselves well, which makes the situation more and more severe. It is urgent to improve Chinese enterprises'ability of defence against antidumping lawsuits.This thesis tried to find out the government responsibility to improve Chinese enterprises'ability of defence against antidumping lawsuits. Because dumping first emerge in international trade, this thesis introduced the basic theory and its new development of dumping and anti-dumping according to international trade theory. WTO is very important in World Multilateral Free Trade System, and all members should abide by WTO rules, so this thesis introduced the general rules of anti-dumping by WTO. This thesis introduced the basic theory of market failure and government responsibility in order to find out the government responsibility to improve Chinese enterprises'ability of defence against antidumping lawsuits. This thesis introduced the significance of government to improve enterprises'ability when facing antidumping cases. The writer also put forward the idea of the ability of enterprises to defend against antidumping lawsuits and the formula to assess such ability as well. Second, this thesis setting forth antidumping investigations worldwide present situation and how Chinese enterprises acting presently, then analyzed the problems why it is hard for Chinese enterprises winning anti-dumping cases. Thinking that Chinese enterprises were weak and easy to bully in antidumping cases, foreign enterprises would easily subject to the related authority of their own countries, using dumping as an excuse. It has been the truth. Third, this thesis put forward methods for government to improve enterprises such ability, including, how to complete anti-dumping forcast system, how to make trade organizations serving enterprises well, and how to appeal to WTO as well.This thesis put forward the idea of enterprises'ability of defence against antidumping lawsuits and the formula to assess such ability for the first time. This thesis set forth the comprehensive of government to improve enterprises'ability when facing antidumping cases for the first time. This thesis proposed that international trade related organizations should have the right to allocate export quota and set up a fund of defence against antidumping lawsuits.