The Issue On Dumping And Anti-dumping And The Strategic Choice For Our Country's Foreign Trade Development

It is since the late 20th century that anti-dumping has developed gradually as amajor barrier in international trade, and anti-dumping has its own profoundly economicdemand and feature.As China, the biggest developing country, joined WTO, and with its trade scaleexpands gradually, the trade strength improves;the anti-dumping situation weencountered is more and more serious. Since the time EEC launched the firstanti-dumping investigation on the saccharin sodium we exported in August, 1979,Chinese products has been encountered anti-dumping form trade partners, and the trendis more and more fierce with more variety, and the scope is wider. It is since 1995 thatwe became the country which encountered the most anti-dumping and is harmed themost seriously. Until June, 2003, the total number of anti-dumping cases against Chinafrom other countries is up to 527, and the products include five kinds of ore, chemicalindustry, land products, mechanical electronics, medical insurances and other more than4000 commodities, which has directly affected our export over 10 billion USD and alsoaffected the further development of our export trade to some extend. Thus, it is a keyissue for our enterprises' long-term development that how to adapt the activecountermeasure to deal with the anti-dumping issue well. This is also the objective ofthis thesis' subject selection.This article studies profoundly the dumping and anti-dumping theory and also theanti-dumping development situation within the present international trade, analyzes anddiscusses the reason why we encounter anti-dumping, authentically provesanti-dumping we encountered, analyzes the cases on foreign countries' anti-dumpingagainst our country, then sums up the experiences and lessons we got to put forward thecountermeasure pertinently against the anti-dumping we encountered on this basis topromote the fast development of our foreign trade.This article is departed in to four parts: the first part introduces the fundamentaltheory of dumping and anti-dumping, and then analyzes the cause, expression forms andeconomic effect of dumping and anti-dumping from the angle of microeconomics;thesecond part analyzes the present situation and feature of foreign anti-dumping againstChina, and its reason, and the effect on China's economy form both the internal andexternal;the third part is the authentic analysis on the anti-dumping suit we answered,which analyzes based on the typical cases that Guangdong porcelain tile encounteringIndia Anti-dumping Act and the suit EU litigating against China's TV anti-dumping toconclude the experiences and lessons form the former successful and failed cases;thefourth part proposes from different angles the suggestions on the countermeasures weshould use to answer foreign anti-dumping suits against our country.