On U.S. Concurrent Anti-Dumping And Countervailing Measures Against Chinese Products

With the sustainable development of Chinese foreign trade, China became the world’s largest export country, since the reform and opening-up. However, China encountered frequently anti-dumping and other trade remedy measures in the process of the development of foreign trade. The United States is China’s important trading partner, it has been affected by the international division of labor, and commodity trade deficit with China make the United States had to take trade remedy measures to China to protect the development of domestic industry. When the U.S. used the trade remedy measures, it always regarded China as "non-market economies", and adopted discriminatory dumping method in the anti-dumping to China. But before 2006, the US pursues the policies that do not apply countervailing investigation to "non-market economies", and anti-dumping is a major trade relief measures. But the United States launched the first concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures against Chinese products survey on Chinese coated paper in November 2006, breaking the tradition of the countervailing investigation shall not apply to "non-market economies", opening the trade relief concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing era. During 2006 to 2013, the United States launched 37 concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures against Chinese products, accounting for 66.07% of the foreign concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures against Chinese products survey. In December 2013, China suffered 66 foreign concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures, there are 56.08% is from the United States. The United States become the country that launched the most concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures against Chinese products.Concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures have serious adverse effects for the Chinese export in the case of product. In fact, the United States regards the implementation of the concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures to China as a kind of strategy. During 2006 to 2013, the United States launched 59 anti-dumping investigations to China, including 45 countervailing investigations, 37 anti-dumping and countervailing investigation at the same time, accounting for 62.7% of the anti-dumping investigations, accounting for 82.2% of the countervailing investigations. Visibly, almost all trade remedy measures to China are concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures since 2006.Concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures measures as a means of trade remedy is the use of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy at the same time, have more restrictions on imported goods. At the same time, different from anti-dumping, it mainly aimed at enterprise, and anti-subsidy is for the government behavior, the combination of these measures has greatly increased the difficulty of export enterprises to deal with. Why the United States launched concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures survey to China frequently? Do concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures applied to China have legal basis? What are the implications of implement of concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures for Chinese export products and how China should be deal with the American trade protectionism policy of concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures? The further study about these problems has important practical significance for the steady development of trade between China and the United States.This article is divided into five parts altogether. The second part is theoretical analysis of concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures trade relief measures that the United States applied to China, to analyze the connotation and essence of the concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures from the level of the WTO rules and the relevant laws. The third part carried out a statistical analysis on the concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing measures cases that U.S. to China, and from the quantity of the products、the industry distribution and trade remedy measures; The fourth part make thorough understanding about implement the concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing survey that the United States to China from the number of the product and industry distribution;The fifth part has an empirical analysis about the negative impact of China’s exports that concurrent anti-dumping and countervailing trade relief measures for China products. In the sixth part, based on the above analysis, put forward the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions.