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Free trade and deep integration : antidumping and antitrust in regional agreements, Volume 1

Author:	Hoekman, Bernard;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 1950
Country:	Canada; Australia; New Zealand; Chile;	Date Stored:	2001/05/14
Document Date:	1998/07/31	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Major Sector:	(Historic)Economic Policy
Region:	East Asia and Pacific; Latin America & Caribbean; OTH	Report Number:	WPS1950
Sub Sectors:	Trade	SubTopics:	Rules of Origin; Environmental Economics & Policies; Economic Theory & Research; Trade Policy; Free Trade; Labor Policies; Trade and Regional Integration
Volume No:	1

Summary: Preferential trading agreements (PTAs) are increasingly including elements of "deep" integration--efforts to agree on common regulatory regimes. The author explores what the PTA experience suggests about the relationship between shallow integration--attaining unconditional intra-area free trade (including the abolition of antidumping)--and deeper integration, especially agreement about common antitrust rules. He argues that common antitrust disciplines in PTAs tend to be driven by a broader agenda--which revolves around attaining economic integration (for example, by creating a single market), not by a need to abolish antidumping. Many PTAs continue to apply antidumping to internal trade flows. In practice, it may be that the demise of antidumping in PTAs is constrained because governments are concerned about the potential for their partners to engage in beggar-thy-neighbor industrial policies. They may consider antidumping a useful defensive instrument in this connection, as it can substitute for instruments such as countervailing duties, which have a much higher foreign policy content and may be more difficult to pursue. If so, antidumping is a particularly ineffective and costly instrument. Eliminating it in PTAs would help focus attention on the real source of trade problems (industrial policies and government interventions) rather than on the symptoms (allegations of unfair dumping).


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