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The EU Anti‐dumping Policy Towards Russia and China: Product Quality and the Choice of an Analogue Country
Author(s) -
Nielsen Jørgen UlffMøller,
Rutkowski Aleksander
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1467-9701
pISSN - 0378-5920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00676.x
Subject(s) - dumping , china , economics , product (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , order (exchange) , international trade , international economics , political science , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , epistemology , finance , law
This paper uses the theory of international trade in vertically differentiated products in order to assess whether the EU has calculated disproportionately high dumping margins in its anti‐dumping policy towards the two non‐market economies (NMEs) Russia and China since 1992. Specifically, the investigation concerns cases in which the level of economic development in and the quality of the products from the chosen analogue country are higher than in the two NMEs. The conclusion drawn here is that, even when the EU chooses analogue countries at a higher level of economic development than Russia and China, the differences in product quality and in the levels of economic development between the dumpers and the analogue countries provide no systematic explanation of the size of dumping margins.