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Do Unfairly Traded Imports Injure Domestic Industries?
Author(s) -
Kelly Kenneth,
Morkre Morris
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9396.00106
Subject(s) - subsidy , economics , revenue , duty , computable general equilibrium , international economics , government (linguistics) , international trade , government revenue , monetary economics , macroeconomics , market economy , finance , law , linguistics , philosophy , political science
There is a widespread popular belief that American industry is being destroyed by unfairly traded imports, that is, those that are subsidized or dumped. This claim is tested with data (where available) from all ÃÂÃÂnal US government countervailing duty and antidumping duty investigations between 1980 and 1988. Using a computable partial equilibrium model, upper bounds of the impact of unfairly traded imports on the revenue of competing domestic industries are computed. It is found that for most industries the effect of unfairly traded imports is minor.