IS EUROPEAN ANTIDUMPING PROTECTION AGAINST CENTRAL-EUROPE TOO HIGH

In this paper, the author finds that the average level of European ant idumping protection against Central Europe in 1985-1990 was by 14 to 2 0 percentage points too high. Her simulation results on the Central Eu ropean antidumping cases show only 'de minimis' injury margins. Hence, the European Commission would have dismissed all European antidumping complaints against Central European imports and no antidumping measur es would have been imposed. In view of these results, the author feels that European antidumping legislation and its implementation seriousl y undermine the credibility of the Association Agreements recently sig ned between the European Union and the countries of Central Europe.