Anti-dumping, subsidies, safeguards

In the last few months trade has contracted more than at any time since the 1930s, reflecting the dramatic global economic downturn provoked in the first instance by the collapse of major financial institutions. Trade growth will be strongly negative this year and we are unlikely to see sustained economic growth until 2010. This adversity is severely testing the policy ingenuity of governments across the globe, and in today’s interdependent world, their willin Read More

Précédemment dans le rapport, nous avons examiné les arguments économiques qui plaident pour ou contre différents types de subventions. L’analyse économique nous montre qu’il est parfois possible de remédier efficacement à divers types de défaillances du marché en recourant à des subventions. Elle nous montre également que les subventions peuvent fausser les courants d’échanges si elles donnent un avantage concurrentiel artificiel à des e Read More

This case-study seeks to illustrate the concepts discussed in a concrete fashion in the context of a hypothetical investigation. It should be borne in mind that the methodologies described herein do not necessarily represent the practices of any particular WTO Member, and their disucssion in this case-study is not intended as an endorsement of those methodologies or as an indication that such methodologies are consistent with the AD Agreement. Nor are a Read More

El Informe sobre el Comercio Mundial 2009 ha sido elaborado bajo la dirección general del Director General Adjunto Alejandro Jara y supervisado por Patrick Low, Director de la División de Estudios Económicos y Estadística. Los autores principales del Informe son Marc Bacchetta, K. Michael Finger, Marion Jansen, Alexander Keck, Coleman Nee, Roberta Piermartini, Michele Ruta y Robert Teh. Las estadísticas comerciales fueron facilitadas por el Grupo de Est Read More