Western Countries, Anti-dumping Perspective And Revelation

Anti-dumping is one of the important means that World Trade Organization allows every country to adopt, in order to maintain fair trade order and resist the illegitimate competition. As the tariff level in the world is reducing constantly, the non-tariff trade barriers are being reduced progressively, anti-dumping gradually evolves as a generally used measure for all countries to protect their national industries, more and more countries have been using it. But by analyzing trade policy, it is proved that anti-dumping' s real aim is trade protectionism, though is has a legal name, and it has violated the original intention that World Trade Organization pursues liberalization of trade.China is the most country in the world that complained anti-dumping at present. And this state will not be greatly changed after entering WTO.Since 1990s, anti-dumping cases against China have increased fast. The developed countries are the main sponsor nations, a few big developing countries follows. The products involved in the cases are in extensive range, focus on the products with comparative advantages that China has, thus causes enormous loses to foreign trade. Tracing the reasons, there are external causes as well as internal ones. The external causes are the international liberalization of trade causes the improvement of frequency of utilization of anti-dumping; foreign discriminatory anti-dumping policy; the threat that rapid growth of China' s foreign trade turnover makes for other countries, etc. The internal causes are: the export mix is out-of-balance; China' s export is in disorder; enterprises did not take part in lawsuit positively, the sense of self-protection is not strong, etc.Dealing with anti-dumping, governments, association of dealers and enterprises must make joint efforts. On the basis of seeing clearly the severe situation, they should make different countermeasure according to one' s own different role, cooperate each other.Countermeasures of government: setting up the regular law system of anti-dumping. Strengthening government' s international coordination and negotiations to get reasonable treatment. Strengthening exporting management and setting up early warning mechanism of anti-dumping. Setting up anti-dumping fund and information network. Setting up and improving the trade association and organization. Examining trade strategy again, expanding domestic demand, reducing the foreign trade depending degree. Revising and utilizing the origin rules. Introducing foreign capital cautiously. Realizing the pluralism of export market and Go-out policy. Strengthening the guidance for lawsuit of anti-dumping cases.Countermeasure of the enterprises : Cooperating with anti-dumping probe, positively take part in lawsuit and contradict . Changing the international marketing strategy, standardizing the financial accounting materials management. Accelerating the reform of the accounting system, integrating with the international accounting system as soon as possible. Changing the marketing idea, implementing the international marketing strategy of the pluralism.Anti-dumping reflects the difficulty and focus of our economics development. By analyzing the trade policy of the anti-dumping and legal rule and combing cases' analysis, proposing countermeasure ,the aim is to improve our country' s ability in anti-dumping, raise enterprise' s competitiveness. This paper relies mainly on the fact analysis together with theory analysis and case analysis, and then draw the conclusion. So its realistic pertinence is relatively strong.