• 통상정보연구
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.361-387
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• 2010

China has been the number one target of anti-dumping cases. In the middle of 1990s, China began to make anti-dumping rules to protect its domestic markets. The first anti-dumping regulation was mentioned in 1994 and the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy regulation was published in 1997. In 2001, China entered into the WTO and as a member of WTO, China is obliged to revise its anti-dumping rules in accordance with WTO's requirements. After that China amended anti-dumping rules in 2004 and it is still valid. Even though China makes considerable efforts to make the rules to be consistent with WTO Rules, China is still facing various difficulties such as lack of transparency, absence of definite deadlines, mismatch between rules, lack of clear interest criteria, overly hard questionnaires and inadequacy of judicial review and non-market economy. This paper deals with the current situation of anti-dumping system in China and the scheme of antidumping law and regulations and the main contents of that law and regulations. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the enhancement of China's anti-dumping rules by studying the problems and solutions of the anti-dumping rules in China.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제31권
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• pp.155-183
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• 2006

Recently, the anti-dumping actions of China are becoming aggressive, resulting in the speculation that Korea's trade surplus to China will be reduced. Anti-Dumping Actions by the Chinese Government are also becoming harsh. According to KOTRA, 18 anti-dumping actions were taken by the Chinese government against Korean products. The Chinese government has opened two additional cases of dumping investigations again Korean products 2005 as well. Therefore, Korea will likely face more trade restrictions in the form of anti-dumping in China Accordingly, the Accused party need to understand Anti-Dumping Act of China. The trade related authorities are monitoring on the China related information, and builds system barring Anti-Dumping Actions. Also, companies strongly export the differential products to the China.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2020

Purpose - This study empirically analyzes the effects of provisional anti-dumping duties levied on imports by Korea following anti-dumping investigations. An anti-dumping duty is a legal tool that countries use to impose duties on imports to offset injurious dumping. This study verifies how effective the imposition of a provisional anti-dumping duty is and whether such duties have trade chilling effects on aggregate imports. Specifically, this study examines import trade diversion from named to unnamed countries caused by the imposition of provisional anti-dumping duties. Design/methodology - This empirical analysis employs an econometric model of provisional anti-dumping measures for cases in which Korea imposed final affirmative anti-dumping measures. We construct a monthly panel dataset for each stage of anti-dumping investigation undertaken by Korea for all manufacturing industries during 1995-2013. We illustrate a stage-by-stage analysis of anti-dumping investigations from initiation, preliminary decision, imposition of provisional duty, final affirmative decision, and imposition of final affirmative duty on a monthly basis at the six-digit harmonized system code-level. Findings - For cases in which provisional duties are imposed, the reduction in imports from named countries outweighs the increase in imports from unnamed countries. The substantial reduction in imports from named countries is large enough to offset the import diversion to unnamed countries, suggesting that import diversion in investigations is limited during the investigation period. Therefore, the use of provisional anti-dumping duties in Korea is effective, providing evidence of a chilling effect on aggregate imports. Originality/value - Few studies examine the size of the effects on import trade diversion of the imposition of provisional anti-dumping duties. We contribute to the literature by disentangling separate trade effects for each phase of the anti-dumping investigation process and imposition of provisional duty.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.231-246
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• 2019

Circumvention refers to the situation in which exporters try to circumvent import restrictions by setting up factories in third countries and assembling and producing parts locally. Circumvention dumping eliminates the impacts of existing anti-dumping measures, and major countries are introducing anti-circumvention dumping laws to address this problem. If the act of the exporting country is recognized as a circumvention dumping activity, anti-dumping duties are applied retroactively to the imported goods or components. Evasion is an act of importation that results in the reduction or non-application of cash deposits, securities, or anti-dumping or countervailing duties, in a manner that is substantive or false, substantive or omission. In this article, we reviewed the contents and examples of the anti-circumvention measures by the US Department of Commerce (DOC), the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Anti-Evasion measures by the CBP. The CBP examples show how much inference can be made about which parts of the CBP's investigations, and in what ways. The enactment of the EAPA created an environment in which the role of the CBP was directly guaranteed, and it was possible to apply adverse inferences to those who did not respond to requests for information, resulting in stronger CBP's authority. Therefore, it is advisable for Korea to examine the introduction of domestic laws, such as the bypass anti-dumping system, in order to cope with unfair trade practices that undermine and neutralize the effects of anti-dumping measures.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제42권
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• pp.337-364
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• 2009

Trade remedy is the system that additional duty or import quantity restriction would be imposed on the import products, in case that unfair imports damage domestic industry or even proper import products damage significantly domestic industry. The system is secured by the act of unfair trade practice investigation & industrial damage remedy, tariff act, WTO agreement. Anti-dumping duty act is the system that duties are assessed with the equal or less amount of the difference between normal transaction price and dumping price, in case that the product imported under dumping price causes or may cause damages in domestic industry, or the development of domestic industry should be delayed practically. Recently, the problems related with anti-dumping duty imposed as the part of the trade remedy occur frequently. It is necessary to discuss whether the anti-dumping duty act is practically trade remedy which does comply with GATT regulations and WTO agreements as the criteria of international law and is in line with the intent of domestic act in the suffered country, or it does return to protective trade or reduce the protection of consumer. On the basis of this discussion, it would be difficult to impose the antidumping duty on industrial products in order to protect domestic industry, when considering the expected free trade agreements of Korea-US, Korea-China and Korea-Japan. In order to survive under the current severe competition of world trade market, companies should raise the competitiveness by themselves without relying on the current trade acts to provide with a certain protection. This thesis should bring those attentions.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제38권
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• pp.265-302
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• 2008

This paper intends to analyse some legal issues on "Zeroing" which is based on the article 2.4.2 under the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement. "Zeroing" stands for a specific methodology in calculating a general dumping margin for a product in question under which negative individual dumping margins are treated as zero (thus "zeroed") before aggregating all individual dumping margins. The article 2.4.2 of the Anti-dumping Agreement regulates three types of calculating methodology on dumping margin as first symmetrical method(average-to-average: A-A), second symmetrical method(individual-to-individual: I-I) and asymmetrical method(average-to-individual: A-I). However, this article does not have any provisions about the "Zeroing" practice. In their anti-dumping practices, the EC and the United-States calculated dumping margin based on the "Zeroing", but this methodology has been disputed in the Dispute Settlement Body(DSB) of the WTO. This paper analysed their legal problems with some WTO cases in particular concerning EC-Bed Linen, U.S.-Softwood Lumber Zeroing, U.S.-Zeroing(EC) and U.S.-Sunset Review(Japan) cases. On the basis of theses analysis, we can therefore ask some questions as follows; To begin with, although the article 2.4.2 of the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement does not clearly refer to the "Zeroing", how do some developing countries, as the U.S.A and the E.U. calculate dumping margin as the "Zeroing"? Secondly, what is the relationship between the symmetrical method and asymmetrical method to the dumping margin? And if we adopt the zeroing method, what is the different rate to anti-dumping margin? Thirdly, although the Panel decided that the zeroing methodology of dumping margin used by th U.S.A in administrative review between the U.S.A and the E.U, why does the Appellate Body made the decision that the american methodology is incompatible with the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement? Lastly, what will be affected the upper decision taken by the Appellate Body to the DDA negotiation of anti-dumping matters? Even though the WTO Appellate made a decision that the zeroing method is incompatible with the principles of the WTO law, this methodology contains a lot of problems. Some members of the WTO as the U.S.A and the E.U did not officially declare this methodology to abandon, and the debate concerned is arguing. Therefore this paper tried to present the adequate solution in order to promote the zeroing methodology in the international anti-dumping system and practices.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.323-349
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• 2011

중국은 WTO 회원국으로써 WTO 협정에서 정하고 있는 반덤핑 제도 관련 규범 및 기타 각종 규범들을 여타의 WTO 회원국과 마찬가지로 국내법과 제도운용에 있어서 WTO의 그것과 합치시켜 운용할 의무가 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 중국 정부의 반덤핑 법규는 덤핑마진의 산정, 경미수입물량에 대한 조사 종결기준, 일몰재심 등과 관련된 세부규정에 미흡함을 지적받고 있어 법적 불확실성을 초래하고 있다. 또한 가격약속과 관련된 규정들 중 일부 규정은 WTO 협정과 일치하지 않는다. 그러므로 우리정부는 단독 혹은 WTO 여타 회원국과 함께 중국 정부에게 반덤핑 법규를 WTO 관련 협정에 부합 되도록 개정해 줄 것 을 요구함과 동시에 중국 정부가 자의적으로 운용할 여지가 있는 모호한 규정들을 구체화시켜 줄 것 을 요구해야 한다. 이와는 별도로 우리나라는 중국이 반덤핑 제소를 개시하면 WTO 관련 협정과 차이가 나는 중국의 반덤핑 법규를 중국 당국이 어떻게 적용하는 지에 대해 면밀히 파악하여, 규정상의 모호성을 WTO 관련 협정의 내용과 부합되게 적용하는지 혹은 위배되는 적용을 하는지에 대하여 초점을 맞추어 그 대응책을 준비해야 한다.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제30권
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• pp.145-174
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• 2006

An anti-dumping has become the trade policy of choice for developing countries as well as advanced countries, hence it is the impending issue to the export-oriented countries including Korea. After colligating the analysis on the trade and industrial policy between Korea and China as well as the analysis on the preceding research, the main reasons of anti-dumping were selected as followings; an unemployment rate, real GDP growth rate and consumer price increase as internal factors, and trade balance, regional coefficient and trade specification index as external factors. Then, the research on how the above seven variable factors can affect the number of anti-dumping measures was accomplished. For the empirical analysis, the above information was used after reorganizing them by on the quarterly basis. Through the use of the correlation analysis, backward elimination of multiple regression analysis model and time-series analysis, it has appeared that the unemployment rate appeared to be the most important factors of anti-dumping measures in addition to the increase rate of trade balance. The variable such as the unemployment rate is uncontrollable for us, so it is appropriate to establish and operate an preemptive monitoring system based on the increasing rate of the amount of export and increasing rate of trade surplus.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.301-323
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• 2011

그동안 WTO에서는 미국의 제로잉 제도에 관해 여러 건의 분쟁이 있었는데 최근에는 연속적으로 제로잉이 WTO 협정에 위배된다는 판정이 내려지고 있다. WTO는 지난 2011 년 1월 한국 철강제품에 대해서도 미국에 대해 패소판정을 내린 바 있다. WTO에서의 연속적인 패소로 인해 미국은 어떤 형태로든 제로잉 관행을 변경할 수밖에 없는 상황이다. 따라서 미 상무부는 지난 2003년 12월에 원심에서의 제로잉 관행을 폐지하였고, 2010년 12월에는 재심에서의 제로잉 관행에 대해서도 개선할 것을 발표하였다. 그동안 제로잉으로 인해 텀핑마진이 과대 계산되고, 이로 인해 수입규제를 받아오던 우리나라의 주요 철강제품은 향후 제로잉 제도가 철폐되면 대부분의 제품에서 텀핑마진이 감소하고 일부의 경우에는 수입규제에서 벗어날 가능성이 높아졌다. 이번 연구는 덤핑마진 재계산과 가격분산을 이용한 실증 분석으로서 제로잉이 철폐되면 이번 WTO 분쟁대상 상품 12개 중에서 약 6개 상품의 덤핑마진이 절반 이상 하락하고 일부 제품의 경우 미소마진 이하로 감소하여 향후 반덤핑 규제 대상에서 제외될 가능성이 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.233-260
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• 2013

FTA를 중심으로 하는 다수의 RTA는 미래 세대에 대한 배려, 지속성, 공정성, 형평성 등을 핵심적인 가치로 하는 지속가능한 발전 개념을 내포하고 있는 경우가 점차 증가하고 있고, 자유무역주의 기조의 확산 정착과 지속가능한 발전 간의 조화를 위한 중요한 규범적 도구가 될 수 있을 것으로 기대되고 있다. 따라서 국제사회가 모색하고 있는 새로운 세계경제 질서의 재편 및 확립을 위한 세계경제의 통합과 자유화에 있어서는 그 어느 때보다도 지속가능한 발전개념이 핵심적인 규범 목적과 가치로 주목받고 있다. 반덤핑제도의 주요 초점이 과거에는 덤핑을 규제하기 위한 것이 목적이었으나, 최근에는 반덤핑제도의 남용을 억제하는 것으로 변화되고 있다. 반덤핑제도 운영의 투명성이 무엇보다도 중요하며, 객관적이고 투명한 반덤핑제도의 운영은 행정적 효율성을 제고시켜줄 뿐만 아니라 수출국에 대한 보복 조치와 무역 분쟁을 방지할 수 있기 때문이다. 따라서 국내적 대응방안으로 덤핑수출업체로부터의 국내산업 보호를 위한 정책을 수립하여야 하며, 비교열위산업의 경우 해당부문에 대한 구조조정을 촉진하여야 하고, 산업구조 고도화를 위한 정부의 정책조정이 필요할 것이다.