ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of how US antidumping law is administered. It describes how the law works (both in theory and in practice) and who has been affected by it. The chapter also describes the US antidumping law. It examines the outcomes of all the antidumping cases filed between 1980 and 1991. These outcomes are then broken done according to the countries and industries involved. The chapter explores the large number of antidumping cases which were withdrawn during this time period. These cases are of interest because several authors have argued that most of them were withdrawn only after the domestic industries involved reached collusive agreements with foreign firms which were detrimental to domestic welfare. The chapter also examines the pattern of the antidumping decisions reached by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and the International Trade Commission (ITC). It discusses the extent of the provisional relief received by domestic industries between 1980 and 1991.
