Do Unfairly Traded Imports Injure Domestic Industries?

REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, September 20, 1996

Posted: 7 Oct 1996

See all articles by Kenneth H. Kelly

Kenneth H. Kelly

Federal Trade Commission

Morris E. Morkre

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Abstract

There is a widespread popular belief that American industry is being destroyed by unfairly traded imports, that is, those that are subsidized or dumped. We test this claim with data (when available) from all final U.S. government countervailing duty and antidumping duty investigations between 1980 and 1988. Using a computable partial equilibrium model we compute upper bounds of the impact of unfairly traded imports on the revenue of competing domestic industries. We find that for most industries the effect of unfairly traded imports is minor.

JEL Classification: D58, F13

Suggested Citation

Kelly, Kenneth H. and Morkre, Morris E., Do Unfairly Traded Imports Injure Domestic Industries?. REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, September 20, 1996, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3376

Kenneth H. Kelly

Federal Trade Commission ( email )

600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20580
United States

Morris E. Morkre (Contact Author)

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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