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GAB Antidumping Measures under Review Antidumping actions are widely criticised for being used as a protective device rather than as a means of controlling unfair trade practices. Michael Davenport discusses the complaints and proposals for change brought forward by the affected exporting countries in the current GATlround. Phedon Nicolaides analyses the antidumping policy of the European Community which has recently been the butt of particularly heavy criticism. MichaelDavenport* The Economics of Antidumping and the Uruguay Round A number of writers have discussed the use of Table 1 brings the data on initiations up to mid 1989. antidumping actions as a protective device? This use These data suggest some decline in antidumping activity has been made easier by the lack of precision in Article VI since the years of 1982 to 1985 (when initiations averaged of the GATT and the GATT Dumping Code. Each of the 221 per year). There could be a number of explanations. principal users of antidumping actions argues that its own Exporting firms may have learnt their lesson and regulations are consistent with the GAT[. This is contested consciously priced their exports at levels high enough to by Japan and the NICs who are arguing within the context avoid provoking antidumping complaints, they may have of the Uruguay Round negotiationsthat national (including found ways of circumventing antidumping rules or EC) regulations are often arbitrary and even, in some opportunities for successful dumping have become fewer. cases, GATE-illegal. In this article the Uruguay Round