ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the procedures that are available under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) for the signatory nations that would prefer a multilateral solution rather than a unilateral solution to the problem of material injury caused by another nation’s subsidy or firms’ dumping practices. It describes the institutional details of dispute settlement that were adopted by Canada and the United States in the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, with the purpose of assessing how they may impact on the future use of the US trade laws against Canadian producers. The chapter reviews the general trade disputes and the anti-dumping and countervailing duty trade disputes that were taken to the GATT over the 1980—1993 period for dispute resolution by Canada and the United States in order to assess the GATT dispute systems’ effectiveness for resolving trade disputes. The GATT treaty grew out of US and British economic discussions held in 1945.
