Video-Enhanced On-Line Anti-Dumping In Practice: Hypothesising, Case Reporting, Case Investigation, Countervailing Actions, Sunset Review and Suspension

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues:

Dumping, Anti-Dumping and Anti-Subsidy: A Conceptual and Practical Review

• The Value of International Trade to Importing and Exporting Countries
• International Trade and Capacity Building
• Export Trade and Foreign Reserve
• Domestic markets, government subsidies and 'duties'
• Export Platforms and the determination of domestic market
• A Review of the General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade (GATT)
• The World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its perceived role in the promotion of world trade
• Dumping in Practice: A Practical Determinant
• Forms and Rationalisation of Subsidies
• Conceptualising Anti-Dumping
• Contextualising Anti-Subsidy

An Analysis of the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 {Anti-Dumping Agreement (ADA)}

• The ADA Agreement
• Interpreting the ADA
• Difference between 'Requirement' and 'Provision'
• Predatory dumping
• Cyclical dumping
• Market expansion dumping
• State-trading dumping
• Strategic dumping
• Determining Dumping
• Actionable Dumping
• Constitution and Function of the WTO ADA Panel
• The Appellate Body of the WTO
• Determination of 'Injury' under ADA
• 'Causal Link'

Research Design: Preparing for the Anti-Dumping Investigation

• Stages of an Anti-Dumping Investigation
• Research Design
• Data gathering and Instrument Design
• Sources of Information
• Secondary Sources
• Primary Sources
• Data Elicitation Techniques
• Surveys
• Participant Observation
• Conversation Analysis
• Documentary Analysis
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Questionnaires
• Sampling As An Important Element of Research Design
• The Sampling Frame
• Sampling Techniques
• Convenience Or Non-random Samples
• Quota Sample
• Systematic Sample
• Probability Or Random Samples
• Simple Random Sample
• Stratified Sampling
• Multi-stage Sampling
• Interview or Questionnaire?
• Using Unstructured Questions
• Using Open-ended Questions
• Designing Closed-ended Questions
• Avoiding Forced-choice
• Data Analysis
• Instruments of Analysis
• Using a 'Tally System'
• Awareness of the SPSS Package
• Using Excel Package
• Data Interpretation
• Making Sense of The Information
• Identifying 'Trends' & 'Patterns' in Information
• Arriving At Conclusions
• Reporting The Findings
• Reporting Styles
• Using The Evidence
• Use of Visual Representations
• Generating Graphs & Charts From Tables
• Managing Research Projects
• Project Planning
• Generating Project Roles
• Realistic Project Costing
• Monitoring & Continuous Evaluation
• The Interim Reports

Hypothesising, Investigating and Reporting Dumping

• Establishing a Dumping Hypothesis
• Reporting Procedure
• Designing a research to test 'Dumping Hypothesis'
• Reporting the 'Alternative Hypothesis' to WTO style
• Testing the Null Hypothesis'
• Reporting Findings of Investigation to WTO
• Determining whether dumping has caused injury

Anti-Dumping Remedy, The Sunset Review and Beyond
Devising Effective Anti-dumping Remedies

• Focusing on WTO provisions and requirements
• Data recording relevant to Countervailing measures
• Disseminating information to Industrialists and other relevant parties, relevant to ADA and their role in countervailing measures suspension and sunset review
• Conducting a Sunset Review
• Beyond the sunset review
• What after countervailing measure suspension
• Formulating anti-dumping policy and strategy, within the ADA