Determinants of US antidumping decisions: four perspectives of international trade policymaking

Abstract

There are four theoretical perspectives that can be used to explain foreign trade policy tendencies: the international political view, the international economic view, the domestic statist view and the domestic societal view. By reflecting these four theoretical perspectives the determinants of US antidumping decisions are analysed. The findings indicate that the international political and domestic societal perspectives dominate the analysis. Specifically, international tension and the level of organization of interest group since 1980 appear to be highly relevant for understanding US antidumping decisions.

Acknowledgement

This work is supported by the post-doctoral research funds from the Chonbuk National University.

Notes

¹ For excellent survey of these articles, see Nelson (2005) and Blonigen and Prusa (2003).

² Before the regression models are estimated, the Johansen analysis is performed. The results indicate that linear combination of variables is stationary, so that the regression results based on these variables will not be spurious. Autocorrelation is corrected with the Cochrane–Orcutt method.