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Abstract:
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The explosion of antidumping activity over the past 10 years has raised
concern among agriculture analysts that antidumping regulations are
biased toward imposing more protection on U.S. agricultural goods than
other products. This research fails to find a statistically significant bias in
the outcomes of antidumping investigations involving agricultural goods
compared to other products, nor does it find significant evidence that
foreign antidumping investigations into imports of food products have
resulted in higher levels of protection than U.S. investigations. However,
the results from a comprehensive case study analysis suggest that despite
the lack of statistical evidence of bias, U.S. agricultural producers have
reason to question the fairness of global antidumping regulations. Given
these results, government officials should consider whether U.S. food
producers could be better served by changes to both U.S. antidumping
regulations and the World Trade Organization Antidumping Agreement. |