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Antidumping regulations or procartel law? : the European Community chemical cases

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This paper addresses the issues of antidumping actions. It surveys all the anticartel cases preceded or followed by related antidumping cases existing in the recent European Community (EC) experience. The paper focuses on the major twin cases which have occurred in two predominant petrochemical products. It assesses the extent of the capture of the antidumping procedures by the cartels in these two main twin cases and estimates the costs of the antidumping protection and the deterrent power of the anticartel actions.

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  • Messerlin, Patrick A., 1990. "Antidumping regulations or procartel law? : the European Community chemical cases," Policy Research Working Paper Series 397, The World Bank.
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    2. Hughes Hallett,Andrew J., 1992. "The impact of EC-92 on developing countries'trade : a dissenting view," Policy Research Working Paper Series 885, The World Bank.

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