On The Legitimacy Of Implementing Anti-dumping And Countervailing Measures On China And China’s Countermeasures

The global economic crisis had a great impact on the world’s economy as well as the international trade, which leads to the prevailing of new trade protectionism. The new round of trade protectionism features legally using Anti-dumping and countervailing and safeguard measures to the other nations. Europe and the US are the biggest trade partners with China, and they are also the partners who implement most Anti-dumping and countervailing measures on China. Canada’s Barbecue Grill Case is the first case that a nation forced Anti-dumping and countervailing measures on China, but it did not lead to a severe fallout because Canada is not politically and economically powerful. Copper Plate Paper Case is the case, due to the United State’s strong political and economic power, that all nations now follow to implement on China the Anti-dumping and countervailing measures. China takes large tolls every year due to the Anti-dumping and countervailing measures, so it is severe for China to handle this problem properly and timely.This paper gives a comprehensive presentation of the China’s present trade conditions and the Anti-dumping and countervailing measures that it is now facing, and focuses on the demonstrations of the legal validity and China’s countermeasures to the Anti-dumping and countervailing measures. I hope that this paper will be a help for China to handle the trade and the Anti-dumping and countervailing measures. The first part of this paper details on the concept and the features of the Anti-dumping and countervailing measures. In the second part of this paper, it specifies on the legal validity of Anti-dumping and countervailing measures. And the third part dwells on the countermeasures that China should pick up to cope with the Anti-dumping and countervailing measures.