China in the WTO antidumping and safeguards World Bank Econ Rev-2016.pdfVIP

China in the World Trade Organization: Antidumping and Safeguards Patrick A. Messerlin China finds itself in a unique situation on antidumping and safeguard issues. It is by far the main target of antidumping measures, but so far one of the smallest users of such measures. China’s World Trade Organization WTO accession protocol includes stringent antidumping and safeguard provisions that its trading partners may use against its exports. The article examines three related concerns: how quickly large developing economies can become intensive users of antidumping measures, an evolution raising concerns about China’s recent antidumping enforcement; how China could minimize its exposure to foreign antidumping cases, a recipe for both improving trade outcomes and for China’s taking a leading role in reforming WTO antidumping; and the opportunities that the Doha Round of trade negotiations offer to China for negotiating stricter disciplines both on WTO contingent protection and on the use by China’s trading partners of the special provisions included in China’s accession protocol. On November 10, 2001, China was accepted as a full member in the World Trade Organization WTO . A few weeks earlier, China’s chief trade negotia- tor, Long Yongtu, had put ‘‘stricter rules on antidumping’’ second among China’s priorities in the WTO . At that time the United States was still fighting to exclude antidumping from the topics to be discussed at the WTO Doha Ministerial Meeting and the European Union was adopting an ambiguous position. In the early stages of the negotiations under the Doha Round development agenda, China finds itself in a unique situation on antidumping and safeguard issues. China’s WTO accession protocol includes special provisions on antidumping and safeguards that its tr