Exploration Of US Antidumping And Countervailing Measures

The US launched large amount of AD/CVD (Anti-dumping/Countervailing duties) investigations of products from recent years. These cases brought heavily negative influence to China, and fuelled speculation that the US was risking trade protectionism. To help China deal with AD/CVD investigations better in the future, to promote the US to correct its unreasonable practices, it’s essential to analyze its motivation of AD/CVD and the impacts followed.The Commerce Department of US launched AD/CVD investigation of hardwood plywood from China. The case ended with no damage, but the departments of investigation had made affirmative determination in all the previous investigation procedures, which hit plywood industry heavily both in China and US. This article analyzed reasons and effects of this case, and showed deep thinking of the compliance issues during the investigation. The results indicated that, there are irrationalities existed in terms of law and fact:the investigation was suspected of double remedy; it was lack of logic in tax calculating and subsidy programs’determination; the range of products involved were exaggerated; selection of surrogate was unreasonable; tax rate was overrated. Finally, strategies were raised from factors of government, industry association and companies involved in these kind of case.