Research Of Rules Of Origin In Anti-circumvention

The anti-dumping investigation and anti-dumping duties are always available against certain product of a specific country. As the development of anti-dumping, exporters tried to avoid anti-dumping duties taken by the importing country through assembling products in the importing country or in a third country. US and European Union began to take anti-circumvention measures to regulate these circumvention behaviors. In anti-circumvention, the importing country is through establishing special rules of origin and special criteria of origin to regulate the two typical types of circumvention behaviors. The rules of origin in anti-circumvention are a special system different from common rules of origin, and with the special legislation the importing countries can protect domestic industry and adjust the industry structure of the country, etc. At present, USA and many countries in Europe have established mature legislation on rules of origin in anti-circumvention, but the Chinese legislation about it is still too simple to implement it well. In view of this, the paper researches the rules of origin in anti-circumvention.The paper gets the following conclusions through hard research: 1. The rules of origin in anti-circumvention is an important part of anti-circumvention legislation. 2. The rules of origin in anti-circumvention are useful tool in international trade policy. 3. The rules of origin in anti-circumvention have taken an important part on protecting the domestic industry and on adjusting the importing country's industry structure. 4. The Chinese legislation on it should be perfected.The innovation points of the paper are as follows: 1.The author illustrates the important role on industry protecting of the rules of origin in anti-circumvention. 2. Establishing special regulations of rules of origin in anti-circumvention is a way of protecting domestic industry by legislation. 3. The paper gives advice of legislations on rules of origin and on anti-circumvention at last.