Australia's Anti-dumping and Countervailing System
Inquiry report
This inquiry report was released on 27 May 2010. The Commission thanks all those who contributed to the inquiry.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 290 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Opportunity for further comment, Terms of reference, Contents, Abbreviations and explanations - Overview - including key points (PDF - 289 Kb)
- Recommendations (PDF - 187 Kb)
- Chapter 1 About the inquiry (PDF - 123 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 - Chapter 2 The current anti-dumping system (PDF - 228 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 - Chapter 3 Recent anti-dumping and countervailing activity (PDF - 163 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 - Chapter 4 Should Australia retain an anti-dumping system? (PDF - 177 Kb)
4.1 The benefits and costs of anti-dumping measures
4.2 What is the net impact on resource use efficiency?
4.3 Political economy considerations
4.4 A modified system should be retained
4.5 Deficiencies in the current system - Chapter 5 Refocussing the broad approach (PDF - 336 Kb)
5.1 Promoting the public interest should be the goal
5.2 A public interest test
5.3 Increasing the stringency of the current criteria
5.4 Public reporting of wider impacts
5.5 The Commission's preferred approach - Chapter 6 Supporting framework changes (PDF - 337 Kb)
6.1 How much additional change is warranted?
6.2 Initiation requirements
6.3 Normal value calculations
6.4 Material injury and causality
6.5 Provisional measures
6.6 Duration of measures and continuation arrangements
6.7 Maintaining the currency of measures
6.8 Countervailing issues - Chapter 7 Administration of the system and implementation arrangements (PDF - 297 Kb)
7.1 Decision-making responsibilities
7.2 The configuration of the appeals mechanism
7.3 Timeliness and resourcing issues
7.4 Increasing transparency
7.5 Information issues
7.6 Implementation and review of the new arrangements - Appendix A Inquiry processes and consultation (PDF - 138 Kb)
- Appendix B A brief history of Australian anti-dumping policy (PDF - 187 Kb)
- Appendix C Anti-dumping in a global context (PDF - 198 Kb)
- Appendix D Could anti-dumping protection improve efficiency? (PDF - 168 Kb)
- Appendix E The competition law alternative (PDF - 127 Kb)
- References (PDF - 182 Kb)
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