Byrd Amendment Update
Ben Muse reports on efforts to revive it: http://benmuse.typepad.com/custom_house/2008/09/is-the-byrd-amendment-coming-back.html The post has lots of good links.
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Trade Remedies
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Mankiw Calls McCain Out on Free Trade
John McCain has been going around declaring himself to be a free trader. ("There's no greater free trader in the Senate than I am," he says). But Greg Mankiw, in the context of raising some election issues that are important to economists, brings up the uncomfortable
Obama on Chinese Steel Duties
From an Obama press release:
U.S. Senator Barack Obama today released the following statement after the International Trade Commission (ITC) concluded that Chinese pipe producers have injured U.S. manufacturers for several years by dumping circular welded steel pipe exports into our market - a practice which has been
Biodiesel Tit-for-Tat
From the EU:
In a move which could trigger a new transatlantic trade row, the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) said it was formally requsting the EU's executive Commission to hit U.S. imports with anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties due to unfair subsidies."Since 2007, as a result
IEL at the Supreme Court
Via Jonathan Dingel, I see that the Supreme Court will be taking up an anti-dumping issue:
The Supreme Court said Monday it will rule on a case that could make it harder for U.S. companies to obtain protective tariffs on low-priced foreign goods.
The dispute centers on whether uranium
Anti-Dumping Reform
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
AD/CVD and Currency Manipulation
Chris Padilla, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, says that using AD/CVD duties to fight currency manipulation is not a good idea:
The Chinese currency has received particular legislative attention. I will leave it to my colleagues at the Treasury to discuss currency policy. Instead, I will address
Musings on Anti-Dumping and Zeroing
As I read through the recent U.S. - Stainless Steel from Mexico panel report, in which the Panel rejected prior Appellate Body rulings and found that certain types of zeroing are permissible, some questions occurred to me:
-- Why is injurious dumping to be "condemned," as stated
Zeroing: Artificially Higher Margins or Artificially Lower Margins?
From the U.S. statement to the Rules Negotiating Group last week:
I’d like to address the issue that has been the focus of so many delegations here today – that is the issue of mandatory offsets or “zeroing.” Dumping margins occur when export prices are less than normal value,
More Reaction to the Draft Rules Text
For those in DC:
THE AMBASSADOR'S DART BOARD:
Responses to the Doha "Rules" Paper Published by Chairman Guillermo Valles Galmés
Thursday, December 13, 2007
8:30 – 10:30 A.M.
(Registration opens at 8:00 a.m.)
The National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW, 13th