Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices

Utilizing four-dimensional (firm-product-destination-year) Brazilian firm-level export data, we show that antidumping (AD) duties result in a significant and dramatic increase in the unit values of the products that firms export to duty-imposing countries. Furthermore, we examine the effect of poten...

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Main Author: Avsar, Veysel
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19089
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spelling okr-10986-190892021-04-23T14:03:51Z Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices Avsar, Veysel antidumping domestic market dumping export market export markets export prices fair home market international market international trade iron market power petroleum refineries price adjustments price discrimination price increase price setting product quality sales spread Utilizing four-dimensional (firm-product-destination-year) Brazilian firm-level export data, we show that antidumping (AD) duties result in a significant and dramatic increase in the unit values of the products that firms export to duty-imposing countries. Furthermore, we examine the effect of potential (retaliatory) AD duties on the unit price of the firms' shipments. Our findings suggest that AD activities in Brazil lead Brazilian exporting firms to increase their unit export prices for the named industries' products to decrease the dumping margin and avoid the threat of retaliation by the target countries. 2014-07-30T21:51:34Z 2014-07-30T21:51:34Z 2013-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X 10.1093/wber/lhs010 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19089 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Brazil
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topic antidumping
domestic market
dumping
export market
export markets
export prices
fair
home market
international market
international trade
iron
market power
petroleum refineries
price adjustments
price discrimination
price increase
price setting
product quality
sales
spread
spellingShingle antidumping
domestic market
dumping
export market
export markets
export prices
fair
home market
international market
international trade
iron
market power
petroleum refineries
price adjustments
price discrimination
price increase
price setting
product quality
sales
spread
Avsar, Veysel
Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices
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description Utilizing four-dimensional (firm-product-destination-year) Brazilian firm-level export data, we show that antidumping (AD) duties result in a significant and dramatic increase in the unit values of the products that firms export to duty-imposing countries. Furthermore, we examine the effect of potential (retaliatory) AD duties on the unit price of the firms' shipments. Our findings suggest that AD activities in Brazil lead Brazilian exporting firms to increase their unit export prices for the named industries' products to decrease the dumping margin and avoid the threat of retaliation by the target countries.
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author Avsar, Veysel
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title Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices
title_short Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices
title_full Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices
title_fullStr Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices
title_full_unstemmed Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices
title_sort antidumping, retaliation threats, and export prices
publisher Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate 2014
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19089
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