Trade Policy Strategies and Enforcement Choices: An examination of the 1992 Steel Antidumping Cases
Abstract
The decade of the 1990s was marked by signiflcant changes
in trading regimes around the world. New regional trading blocs,
such as the European Community and the North American Free
Trade area, emerged; traditional trade barriers, primarily tariffs,
were substantially reduced or are headed toward elimination;
many quotas and voluntary export restraints have expired; and,
the Uruguay Round of global trade negotiations concluded in
1993 with new rules and a new World Trade Organization.
These developments suggested an inexorable movement toward
freer and more open trade. But, as the more recognizable trade
barriers disappeared, administered trade became proportionately
more important. "The reductions in tariffs have led governments
to resort to other practices which constrain trade, and the
restriction most often applied is antidumping law" (Anderson
et al., 1995, p. 321).
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08853900390152818