GLOBAL ANTIDUMPING DATABASE v5.1
Development Research Group, the World Bank and Brandeis University

The Global Antidumping Database website hosts newly collected, freely available, and detailed data on twenty-five (as of the completion of version 5.0) different national governments’ use of the antidumping (AD) trade policy instrument, as well as all WTO members’ use of safeguard (SG) measures, China-specific transitional safeguard (CSG) measures, and most of the global users of countervailing duties (CVD) through 2008. The information provided in this detailed data base will cover over 95% of the global use of these particular import-restricting trade remedy instruments. 

The data collection project was initiated with seed funding by Brandeis University, and significantly expanded via funding from the Development Research Group of the World Bank, and and the Global Trade and Financial Architecture (GTFA) project initiative sponsored by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).  

This data collection effort is the first attempt to use original source national government documentation to organize information on products (HS codes), firms, the investigative procedure and outcomes of the historical use (since the 1980s) of the antidumping policy instrument across most of the WTO system’s users. Data on SG investigations includes information on products (HS codes), the investigative procedure and outcomes including details on the structure of measures (including exempted countries) of the policy’s 1995-2008 use by all WTO members. We also report more and recent data on a number of smaller users of AD, and we also provide matching information to data on challenges to AD, SG and CVM via the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU).