Download This PaperPrice Undertakings, VERs, and Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Foreign Rivalry
30 Pages Posted: 12 Jul 2007
Date Written: July 2007
Abstract
Antidumping (AD) petitions are often withdrawn in favor of VERs and price undertakings. We compare foreign firms' incentive to engage in foreign direct investment (FDI) under a VER and a price undertaking, with special emphasis on foreign rivalry. We show that a VER is less likely to induce FDI than a price undertaking or AD. Thus, the importing country can increase the level of protection by replacing an AD duty with a VER. This may account for the GATT ban on VERs, given the proliferation of AD cases during the 1990s.
Keywords: FDI, price undertakings, antidumping, VER, WTO
JEL Classification: F1
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Ishikawa, Jota and Miyagiwa, Kaz, Price Undertakings, VERs, and Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Foreign Rivalry (July 2007). ISER Discussion Paper No. 693, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1000102 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1000102
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