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The Trade Effects of U.S. Antidumping Actions

In: The Effects of US Trade Protection and Promotion Policies

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Even though tariff rates fell throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, there is growing consensus that the overall level of protection in the United States rose during this period. For instance, Bhagwati (1988, 43) states, “The downward trend in trade restrictions resulting from declining tariffs was rudely interrupted in the mid-1970s,” and Nivala (1993) points out that between 1975 and 1985 the volume of U.S. import trade affected by some form of trade barriers doubled. In fact, from a historical perspective, what is surprising is not that the long postwar period of trade liberalization was interrupted (at least temporarily) but that the era of trade liberalization lasted so long…
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  • Thomas J. Prusa, 1997. "The Trade Effects of U.S. Antidumping Actions," NBER Chapters, in: The Effects of US Trade Protection and Promotion Policies, pages 191-214, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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