Trade adjustment in the WTO system: are more safeguards the answer? (2007)
Bown, Chad P., McCulloch, Rachel
For countries to engage successfully in the international trading system, their industries, firms, and workers must respond continually to new conditions of competition. The continuing need to adjust...
WTO Dispute Settlement and the Missing Developing Country Cases: Engaging the Private Sector (2005)
Bown, Chad P., Hoekman, Bernard M.
The poorest WTO member countries almost universally fail to engage as either complainants or interested third parties in formal dispute settlement activity related to their market access interests....
WTO Dispute Settlement and the Missing Developing Country Cases: Engaging the Private Sector (2005)
Bown, Chad P., Hoekman, Bernard M.
The poorest WTO member countries almost universally fail to engage as either complainants or interested third parties in formal dispute settlement activity related to their market access interests....
Participation in WTO Dispute Settlement: Complainants, Interested Parties, and Free Riders (2005)
What affects a country’s decision of whether to formally engage in a trade dispute directly related to its exporting interests? This article empirically examines determinants of affected country...
Participation in WTO Dispute Settlement: Complainants, Interested Parties, and Free Riders (2005)
What affects a country’s decision of whether to formally engage in a trade dispute directly related to its exporting interests? This article empirically examines determinants of affected country...
WTO Dispute Settlement and the Missing Developing Country Cases: Engaging the Private Sector (2005)
Bown, Chad P., Hoekman, Bernard M.
The poorest WTO member countries almost universally fail to engage as either complainants or interested third parties in formal dispute settlement activity related to their market access interests....
WHY ARE SO FEW CHALLENGED? (2004)
Antidumping and related trade remedies are the most popular policy instruments that many of the largest importing countries in the WTO system use to restrict international trade. While such trade...
The economics of international trade policy laws and institutions : theory and evidence / (1999)
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Global antidumping database version 1.0
This paper describes a newly collected, detailed database on national governments'use of the antidumping trade policy instrument. The data collectionproject was funded by the Development Research...
The U.S. trade deficit: made in China?
Chad P. Bown, Meredith Crowley, Rachel McCulloch, Daisuke J. Nakima
Rapid growth of the U.S. bilateral trade deficit with China has promoted a widespread view that the overall trade deficit is "made in China." The authors examine the probable consequences of...
What affects a country's decision of whether to formally engage in a trade dispute directly related to its exporting interests? This article empirically examines determinants of affected country...
The World Trade Organization and antidumping in developing countries
Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most frequent users of the WTO-sanctioned antidumping trade policy instrument. This paper...
U.S. Trade Policy and the Adjustment Process
Chad P. Bown, Rachel McCulloch
This paper focuses on the adjustment environment in the United States as set out by the active U.S. trade remedy laws (antidumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards) and the Trade Adjustment...
Developing Countries and Enforcement of Trade Agreements: Why Dispute Settlement Is Not Enough
Bown, Chad P., Hoekman, Bernard
Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal WTO trade disputes for failing to live up to commitments, reducing the benefits of their participation in international trade agreements. This paper...
Why are safeguards under the WTO so unpopular?
In recent years, more countries have increasingly turned to explicit, codified trade policy instruments of the international trading system such as antidumping measures. Countries have also...
Trade remedies and World Trade Organization dispute settlement : Why are so few challenged?
Antidumping and related trade remedies are the most popular policy instruments that many of the largest importing countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) system use to restrict international...
The pattern of US antidumping: the path from initial filing to WTO dispute settlement
BOWN, CHAD P., HOEKMAN, BERNARD, OZDEN, CAGLAR
This paper examines recent trends in the US antidumping process. We trace the experience of different groups of countries at each stage of the investigation process and through follow-up activity in...
Nondiscrimination and the WTO Agreement on Safeguards
BOWN, CHAD P., McCULLOCH, RACHEL
Most-favored-nation treatment, i.e., nondiscrimination among trading partners, is a fundamental principle of the GATT WTO system. The WTO Agreement on Safeguards has thus been seen as encouraging use...
Developing Countries as Plaintiffs and Defendants in GATT/WTO Trade Disputes
Developing countries have been increasing their participation in the formal institutions and proceedings of the multilateral trading system. A prominent example is their more frequent involvement as...
U.S. Trade Policy and the Adjustment Process
Chad P. Bown, Rachel McCulloch
This paper focuses on the adjustment environment in the United States as set out by the active U.S. trade remedy laws (antidumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards) and the Trade Adjustment...
Developing countries and enforcement of trade agreements : why dispute settlement is not enough
Bown, Chad P., Bernard M., Hoekman
Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal World Trade Organization trade disputes for failing to live up to commitments, reducing the benefits of their participation in international trade...
Canada's Anti-dumping and Safeguard Policies: Overt and Subtle Forms of Discrimination
Like many countries in the international trading system, Canada repeatedly faces political pressure from industries seeking protection from import competition. I examine Canadian policymakers'...
Economic theory has yet to provide a convincing argument that can explain why the threat of retaliation under the GATT/WTO dispute settlement procedures is not sufficient to prevent countries...
"How Different Are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from US Trade Policies Toward Steel"
How do the trade impacts of a safeguard measure - which is statutorily designed to follow the most-favored-nation (MFN) principle - compare to explicitly discriminatory measures such as antidumping?...
The U.S. trade deficit: made in China?
Chad P. Bown, Meredith Crowley, Rachel McCulloch, Daisuke J. Nakima
Rapid growth of the U.S. bilateral trade deficit with China has promoted a widespread view that the overall trade deficit is "made in China." The authors examine the probable consequences of...
Policy externalities: how U.S. antidumping affects Japanese exports to the EU
Chad P. Bown, Meredith Crowley
This paper investigates the international externalities associated with US use of antidumping (AD) measures by examining the relationship between US AD duties (ADDs) and Japanese exports to the US...
On the Economic Success of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement
What features of the dispute settlement process help governments live up to their trade liberalization commitments? Exploiting data on GATT/WTO trade disputes initiated and completed between 1973 and...
WTO Dispute Settlement and the Missing Developing Country Cases: Engaging the Private Sector
Chad P. Bown, Bernard M. Hoekman
The poorest WTO member countries almost universally fail to engage as either complainants or interested third parties in formal dispute settlement activity related to their market access interests....
THE WTO AND ANTIDUMPING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most frequent users of the WTO-sanctioned antidumping (AD) trade policy instrument. This...
Antidumping and Retaliation Threats
Bruce A. Blonigen, Chad P. Bown
This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States. We separate the capacity for retaliation into two channels: (i) the capacity for...
China's WTO Entry: Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement
This chapter assesses China's integration into the global trading system by examining areas of international political-economic "friction" associated with its increased trade. We use a number of...
Trade Remedies and World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement: Why Are So Few Challenged?
Antidumping and related trade remedies are the most popular policy instruments that many of the largest importing countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) system use to restrict international...
The Zeroing Issue: a critical analysis of Softwood V
This paper addresses the issues that came before the Appellate Body in the Softwood V dispute, concerning an affirmative antidumping determination by the US Department of Commerce. The paper...
BOWN, CHAD P., WAUTERS, JASPER
This paper reviews the WTO Appellate Body Report on United States textual argument relied on to support this deferential approach is weak and has resulted in undermining the practical effect of, what...
The pattern of US antidumping: the path from initial filing to WTO dispute settlement
BOWN, CHAD P., HOEKMAN, BERNARD, OZDEN, CAGLAR
This paper examines recent trends in the US antidumping process. We trace the experience of different groups of countries at each stage of the investigation process and through follow-up activity in...
Nondiscrimination and the WTO Agreement on Safeguards
BOWN, CHAD P., McCULLOCH, RACHEL
Most-favored-nation treatment, i.e., nondiscrimination among trading partners, is a fundamental principle of the GATT WTO system. The WTO Agreement on Safeguards has thus been seen as encouraging use...
Brazil ? Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyres: A Balancing Act
BOWN, CHAD P., TRACHTMAN, JOEL P.
This paper provides a legal-economic analysis of the Appellate Body decision in Brazil i.e., the size of the underlying externality associated with retreading. Second, if the justification for the...
The global resort to antidumping, safeguards, and other trade remedies amidst the economic crisis
This paper examines newly available data from the World Bank-sponsored Global Antidumping Database tracking the worldwide use of trade remedies such as antidumping, countervailing duties, global...
Bown, Chad P., McCulloch, Rachel
First Japan and more recently China have pursued export-oriented growth strategies. While other Asian countries have done likewise, Japan and China are of particular interest because their economies...