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Under Pressure: Intractable Trade Conflicts and Korea – Pneumatic Valves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2021

Kristy Buzard  and
Kathleen Claussen
Kristy Buzard*
Affiliation:
Economics Department, Syracuse University
Kathleen Claussen
Affiliation:
University of Miami School of Law
*
*Email: kbuzard@syr.edu; kclaussen@law.miami.edu
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Abstract

The Appellate Body (AB) report in Korea–Pneumatic Valves is among the most structurally complex of recent trade remedies reports. The AB weaves a complicated web to explicate the intricacies of the relationship among the relevant provisions on injury determination in anti-dumping disputes in the midst of a contentious and long-running series of disputes between two close regional trading powers. This Article first examines the Korean investigation and its significance in economic terms. Second, it analyzes the AB's conclusions on Article 6.2 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding regarding the panel request and the significance of the AB's treatment. Third, it studies the AB's comments on the panel's anti-dumping calculations where the AB amplifies its prior pronouncements on the elements of injury and causation. Finally, the Article situates this dispute in the broader political debates playing out both at the AB and between the two disputing parties.

Keywords

Trade remediesArticle 6.2 of the DSUanti-dumpinginjurycausation
Type
Original Article
Information
World Trade Review , Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: WTO Case Law , October 2021 , pp. 509 - 523
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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