Trade destruction and trade harassment effects of US antidumping petitions

Based on the panel data integrated by import volume of US antidumping (AD) initiations (initiated in 1998∼2004) and correlative influencing factors, the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimators have examined the impact of AD on the import of the named commodities at a period of 3 years after the initiating years. The empirical results prove that, US antidumping petitions have significant trade destruction effect on depressing the import of named commodities which are finally imposed by dumping duties. On the other hand, even if in those cases without final dumping duties, the trade harassment effect also leads to a fall in the import. In addition, devaluation of U.S currency, GDP scale of initiated countries, and amount of US population leads to negative effects to US import, while population amount of initiated countries, GDP of US and its degree of openness has positive effect on the import.