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Please join AmCham China for a discussion on the policies and outcomes of China's antidumping cases and the impact they have on industrial performance with Scott Kennedy, Director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business at Indiana University.
China has long been the world's most common target of antidumping cases, but in the last decade it has become one of the most active users of this fair-trade instrument. Although China's average antidumping tariffs are low relative to other active users, including the US, an analysis of China's antidumping record demonstrates that the outcome of these cases is determined less by economics than the identity of the companies launching the cases and the nationality of the targets. Moreover, although antidumping protection does lead to a short-term reduction in imports and a rise in domestic production, increased profitability is rarely improved as a result of these cases. Such protection only irregularly achieves its intended economic goals. This mixed outcome indicates the extent to which lobbying by all parties involved shapes both case outcomes and the consequent impact on industrial performance.
China has long been the world's most common target of antidumping cases, but in the last decade it has become one of the most active users of this fair-trade instrument. Although China's average antidumping tariffs are low relative to other active users, including the US, an analysis of China's antidumping record demonstrates that the outcome of these cases is determined less by economics than the identity of the companies launching the cases and the nationality of the targets. Moreover, although antidumping protection does lead to a short-term reduction in imports and a rise in domestic production, increased profitability is rarely improved as a result of these cases. Such protection only irregularly achieves its intended economic goals. This mixed outcome indicates the extent to which lobbying by all parties involved shapes both case outcomes and the consequent impact on industrial performance.
Scott Kennedy (Ph.D., George Washington University, 2002) is Director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business (RCCPB), Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and East Asian Languages & Cultures, and Adjunct Professor in the Kelley School of Business's Department of Business Economics and Public Policy at Indiana University. He also just assumed the position of Academic Director of IU's China Office. His research examines the non-market strategies of companies in China through several contexts, including lobbying, industrial policy, global governance, and philanthropy. He is author of The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press, 2005) as well as a series of reports on China's economic policy process and articles in several prominent international journals; and editor of several influential books on China's recent economic transformation. He is currently preparing an edited volume, The Dragon's Learning Curve: Global Governance and China (Routledge, forthcoming 2014) and writing a monograph, Mandarins Playing Capitalist Games: How Chinese Are Reshaping Global Governance.
