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Antitrust and Trade Regulation

Selected Works

John J. Barceló III

Selected Works

2014

Unfair trade remedies

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A History Of Gatt Unfair Trade Remedy Law--Confusion Of Purposes, John J. Barceló Iii Dec 2014

A History Of Gatt Unfair Trade Remedy Law--Confusion Of Purposes, John J. Barceló Iii

John J. Barceló III

This paper presents an analytical history of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy law in GATT and its member countries. In recent years this body of ‘unfair trade remedy’ law has flourished in the western trading system. Important trading countries have adopted new or expanded anti-dumping and anti-subsidy laws and imposed trade-blocking remedies under them more frequently than ever before. I try to explain in this essay how and why these laws--which I view as protectionist--have prospered and become so rooted in GATT and its member countries.