Tuesday, August 18, 2009

U.S. Loses W.T.O. Dumping Appeal

. Tuesday, August 18, 2009

This is positive:

The World Trade Organization’s top court rejected on Tuesday an American appeal in a long-running case on antidumping measures, clearing the way for Japan to threaten trade sanctions against Washington.

The final ruling by the Appellate Body of the W.T.O. in the case, which Japan started in 2004, dealt another setback to a controversial American method of dealing with unfairly priced imports.

But it also highlighted sensitivity about antidumping measures. The measures impose additional duties on imports that are sold for less abroad than they cost at home, but can be abused for protectionist purposes. ...

The case turned on a controversial method known as “zeroing” used by the United States to calculate duties on goods imported for less than they cost in the originating country.

The way the United States handles its antidumping measures was also at issue. Washington argued that it could continue to levy duties on goods that entered the country before a W.T.O. ruling finding such duties illegal — a stance rejected by the court.

The United States is the only one of the W.T.O.’s 153 members to back zeroing, which the Appellate Body has ruled against consistently.


The U.S. is clearly in the wrong here, and I'm happy to see the W.T.O. put its foot down. I discussed how anti-dumping protections often make trade less free and fair before.

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