ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies only a few examples of how changing Economic Community (EC) rules of origin and application of antidumping regulations could affect American industry. Rules of origin requirements, local content rules and quantitative restrictions: those extremely technical questions come back with regularity in the external relations of the EC. In broad terms, the EC is afraid that Japan and the New Industrialized Countries could flood its market by dumping products. The coupling of stringent local content requirements with tight rules of origin can essentially exclude products made outside the Community. A case involving a Japanese manufacturer of photocopiers assembled in the United States also illustrates how the EC rules of origin, combined with EC antidumping policies, and might affect US economic interests. Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, and Britain have bilateral import quotas on Japanese automobiles and would like to extend them to the whole EC.
