ABSTRACT
Under article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a member country of the World Trade Organization (WTO) can unilaterally impose anti-dumping duties to protect its domestic industry from imports of ‘dumped’ goods and offset material injury caused by such imports. Anti-dumping practices, particularly anti-dumping duties, are thus targeted at firms, not governments (unlike countervailing duties), and are therefore not required to be imposed on a most-favoured-nation basis (unlike safeguard measures). These two characteristics make anti-dumping the politically least difficult measure to apply of the trade remedies available to WTO members.
