Higher input prices stemming from antidumping measures are only the first assault on these downstream firms.
There is suspicion that Argentina is also being used to avoid Brazilian antidumping tariffs.
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Provisions to unilaterally impose antidumping safeguards and countervailing measures must be reviewed to prevent their abuse.
The Cato Institute today published its 13th policy paper on the topic of antidumping.
The paper contains many statistics and details and makes a very practical case for antidumping reform.
This pay-to-play scheme is made possible by the peculiarities of the U.S. antidumping system.
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The current regulations strike a balance that considers antidumping and countervailing duty petitioners, importers and U.S. manufacturers.
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That many politicians aspire to this status explains the enduring popularity of the U.S. antidumping law in Washington.
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More and more frequently, that is how and why the antidumping law is used in the United States.
Chinese solar companies blame many of their woes on the antidumping tariffs recently imposed by the U.S. and Europe.
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So, there is a fundamental incompatiblity to applying simultanously CVD duties and antidumping duties generated from the NME methodology.
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Under the U.S. antidumping law, manufacturing consumers of subject imports have no legal standing to participate in the proceedings.
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Earlier this year, the Cato Institute published this paper, which describes the self-flagellating nature of the U.S. antidumping law.
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In July, under the name of his Cyrus Marketing, in Sedona, Arizona, he asked the Commerce Department to review the antidumping duty.
And before that, I was a trade policy and antidumping analyst at a few different international trade law practices in Washington, DC.
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Imported products that are made with components that may be dumped or subsidized are not subject to antidumping duty or countervailing duty.
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That's when U.S. growers took action, lobbying the U.S. Commerce Department to launch an antidumping investigation of Mexican tomato exporters in 1996.
This kind of trade diversion is a typical consequence of antidumping restrictions.
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So-called antidumping suits brought by industries allegedly injured by imports are proliferating.
Fresh tomatoes from Mexico have been subject to antidumping restrictions since 1996.
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In fact, the U.S. administering agencies are forbidden by statute from even considering the impact of antidumping duties on the downstream, consuming industries.
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Nor is an assessment of the costs of prospective antidumping restrictions on the broader economy permitted to carry any weight under the statute.
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The antidumping tariffs were imposed in the mid-1980s, thanks to lobbying by California's 526 pistachio growers, who argued that Iran's government subsidized its farmers.
The next wave usually takes the form of stiffer competition from firms in countries where there are no antidumping duties on the critical input.
Those are just a few of the many kinds of consequential, results-changing decisions the Commerce Department renders during the course of an antidumping proceeding.
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Under the U.S. antidumping law, the Commerce Department maintains considerable discretion when it comes to determining the existence and measuring the magnitude of dumping.
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