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Cumulation Of Import Statistics In Injury Investigations Before The International Trade Commission, William B.T. Jr. Mock

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

United States manufacturers have sometimes found themselves unable to identify which unfair import competitors have injured their industries when sources of unfair competition exist in more than one country. These manufacturers have had some redress from unfair trade available to them through various federal trade laws, including, inter alia, the antidumping and countervailing duty laws. Until recently, however, these laws have largely addressed unfair trade competition coming from a single foreign country source at a time; they have not, however, addressed the "hammering effect" of unfair competition from many sources operating in the market at once or sequentially. The International …