The Impact of Anti-Dumping Policy on the Import Volume of Shrimp Product in the United States

The Impact of Anti-Dumping Policy on the Import Volume of Shrimp Product in the United States

Global Review of Accounting and Finance

Vol. 10. No. 1., March 2019, Pages: 47 – 76

The Impact of Anti-Dumping Policy on the Import Volume of Shrimp Product in the United States

Ming-Chang Cheng, Yung-Huei Chen, Chien-Chi Lee, and Phuong-Anh Le

This paper research investigates the impact of anti-dumping policy on the import volume of shrimp product in the United States, also analysis the trade diversion effect of the U.S anti-dumping duty in the period of time from January 1989 to December 2017. This research comes up with the results that the anti-dumping duty has the significant negative impact to the import volume of shrimp product from both subject countries and non-subject countries. There is also a trade diversion effect after the US has imposed the anti-dumping duty, resulting in increasing the export volume in shrimp product of the subject countries to the third market.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.21102/graf.2019.03.101.03