AN ANALYSIS OF ITC DECISIONS IN ANTIDUMPING, COUNTERVAILING DUTY AND SAFEGUARD CASES

This paper investigates the economic factors that best explain the dec isions of the International Trade Commission in administering the inju ry provisions of U.S. antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard laws during the 1980s. Utilizing the economic data collected by the Co mmission for each investigation, it attempts to ascertain through regr ession analysis how strictly the commissioners have been interpreting these laws in recent years in terms of the economic conditions require d for finding that an industry has been injured and for establishing a casual relationship between imports and this injury.