Antidumping actions are increasingly used as a means of fostering and protecting "strategic industries" by both developed and developing countries. This study analyzes the antidumping systems of a number of key trading nations--the United States, major European nations, and developing countries in Asia--and traces the interconnections with industrial policy. It also describes the implications of these new actions for the multilateral trading system. [more...]

Brian Hindley is a reader in trade policy in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Patrick A. Messerlin is a professor of economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.