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Antidumping Duties in the Agriculture Sector: Trade Restricting or Trade Deflecting?

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: In this article we analyze whether US antidumping (AD) duties in the agricultural sector are effective in restricting trade. More specifically, does imposing an antidumping duty restrict imports of the named commodity or are imports deflected from countries named in the AD petition to countries not named in the petition? We find that AD duties have significantly restricted imports of agricultural commodities from countries named in the petition. However, our results also indicate that, unlike the manufacturing sector in the US, there was little trade diversion towards countries not named in the petition. Our results indicate that AD is a plausible protectionist policy in the agriculture sector.

Source: Global economy journal

DOI: 10.2202/1524-5861.1299

Authors: Nisha Malhotra, Horatiu A. Rus, Shinan N Kassam

Institutions: University of British Columbia, University of Waterloo, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

Language: English

Topic: Global trade and economics

Subfield: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3022987375

FWCI: 3.214

Cites: 24

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10