Strategic Behavior and the United States Unfair Trade Statutes

Steagall, Jeffrey W.

1. Introduction 1.1. The US Countervailing Duty Mechanism 1.2. Literature Review 1.3. Countervailing Duty Proceedings Since 1980 2. Empirical Analysis of International Trade Commission Behavior 2.1. The US ITC Material Injury Investigation 2.2. An Econometric Model of ITC Behavior 2.3. Data Sources and Variable Construction 2.4. Estimation of the ITC Determination Function 3. The CVD Statute and the Material Injury Requirement 3.1. Effect of Foreign Subsidization on Cournot Duopoly 3.2. Modelling ITC Determination Behavior 3.3. Modelling a Domestic CVD Statute 3.4. Effects of Various ITC Determination Functions 3.5. An Example 3.6. Endogenous Subsidization 4. Empirical Analysis of Strategic Behavior 4.1. Strategic Behavior and the Empirical ITC Determination Function 4.2. An Empirical Model of Strategic Behavior 4.3. The Strategic Behavior Hypothesis 4.4. An Empirical Test of the Strategic Behavior Hypothesis 5. The ADD Statute and the Material Injury Requirement 5.1. A One-Period Dumping Model 5.2. Modelling a Domestic ADD Statute 5.3. The Equilibrium 5.4. The Effect of Various Forms of the ITC Determination Function