Finding Middle Ground: Reforming the Anti-dumping Laws in North America

For more than a decade, Canada has sought to enhance and secure its access to the US market. Much of this quest has been successful, as demonstrated by the rapid growth in bilateral trade and investment. The major exception has been stubborn US resistance to any changes to the trade remedy regime, particularly the availability of measures to offset dumping. Canadian proposals for reform, in both regional and global negotiations, have been repeatedly rebuffed by US politicians convinced of the continued political need for measures to counteract dumping. The contributors to this volume provide a range of new suggestions and proposals aimed at breaking the impasse. While most of the authors would welcome fundamental reforms, such as the replacement of antidumping with competition laws, they concentrate in this volume on the pros and cons of various technical changes to existing national antidumping laws that would provide a basis for a more gradual evolution toward fundamental reforms.

xxii, pp. 322, ISBN 1-896871-00-3, 1997, $19.95