Australia's Anti-dumping and Countervailing System
Draft inquiry report
This draft inquiry report was released on 10 September 2009. You were invited to examine this draft and provide written comments to the Productivity Commission. Written comments should reach the Commission by 6 November 2009. Preparation of a final report is underway.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 342 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Opportunity for further comment, Terms of reference, Contents - Overview - including key points (PDF - 299 Kb)
- Draft recommendations (PDF - 182 Kb)
- 1 About the inquiry (PDF - 132 Kb)
1.1 The Commission's terms of reference
1.2 The Commission's approach
1.3 A road map to the rest of the report - 2 The current anti-dumping system (PDF - 234 Kb)
2.1 Overview of Australia's anti-dumping system
2.2 How the anti-dumping system works
2.3 Key concepts and definitions
2.4 Related policies
2.5 The international context - 3 Recent anti-dumping and countervailing activity (PDF - 169 Kb)
3.1 Recent usage of the system
3.2 Nature and form of measures
3.3 Product and country incidence
3.4 Magnitude of support
3.5 Global perspective - 4 Rationales for Australia's anti-dumping system (PDF - 219 Kb)
4.1 Some overarching considerations
4.2 Specific efficiency rationales
4.3 Political economy arguments
4.4 Implications for this review - 5 How does the current system measure up? (PDF - 158 Kb)
5.1 What drives the impacts of anti-dumping measures?
5.2 How do higher prices affect key stakeholders?
5.3 What is the net impact on community wellbeing?
5.4 Policy implications
5.5 Deficiencies in the current system - 6 Refocussing the broad approach (PDF - 278 Kb)
6.1 Promoting the public interest should be the goal
6.2 A public interest test
6.3 Increasing the stringency of the current criteria
6.4 Public reporting of wider impacts
6.5 The Commission's preferred approach - 7 Other architectural changes (PDF - 277 Kb)
7.1 How much additional change is warranted?
7.2 Initiation requirements
7.3 Normal value calculations
7.4 Material injury and causality
7.5 Provisional measures
7.6 Continuation and other review arrangements
7.7 Other review matters
7.7 Countervailing issues - 8 Administration of the system and implementation arrangements (PDF - 272 Kb)
8.1 Decision-making responsibilities
8.2 The configuration of the appeals mechanism
8.3 Timeliness and resourcing issues
8.4 Increasing transparency
8.5 Other matters
8.6 Implementation and review of the new arrangements - Appendix A Public consultation (PDF - 169 Kb)
- Appendix B A brief history of Australian anti-dumping policy (PDF - 191 Kb)
- Appendix C Anti-dumping in a global context (PDF - 204 Kb)
- Appendix D The competition law alternative (PDF - 130 Kb)
- References (PDF - 185 Kb)
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Printed copies
Available on request from Jill Irvine.
Phone: 02 6240 3223
Email: antidumping@pc.gov.au