From a post about anti-dumping over at VoxEU:
Even leaving aside legal details, our recent work and other studies suggest some obvious starting points for any reform of the EU antidumping system. Antidumping instruments that are simply another form of protection leave too much discretion in the hands of the administrating authorities. Duties are thus used in a retaliatory fashion or to compensate for lost tariff protection resulting from trade liberalisation. The solution is relatively simple: prescribe (and enforce) tighter economic criteria identifying dumping, injury, and the causal link between the two. Here, the extensive economic literature and legal doctrine on competition policy can be of great help.
I can understand the suggestion to look at competition policy for guidance in administering anti-dumping. However, if we're going down that route, why not propose using competition policy directly to deal with allegations of unfair pricing by foreign companies? That is, why not propose replacing anti-dumping with competition policy? It's possible that the authors have this in mind, but prefer not to say it explicitly, keeping a formally separate anti-dumping regime.
