ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the International Trade Administration (ITA) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) have implemented the US antidumping laws. The goal is to determine whether the ITA and the ITC administer the US The chapter focuses on the role of the ITA and ITC in the administration of US antidumping laws. It examines the importance of economic criteria in the decisions made by the ITC. The chapter describes how the ITA computed the margins between 1980 and 1991. It presents a frequency analysis of the various combinations of home and US market value. The chapter assesses the extent to which ITC material injury decisions are based on economic criteria. The data in the ITC reports are derived from surveys of the domestic and foreign participants. The chapter also describes different econometric models to represent the different methodologies employed by the commissioners.
