Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Antidumping Duties and Exchange Rates: Comment

摘要

A previous American Economic Review article by Bruce Blonigen and Stephen Haynes (2002) considers the degree to which the US imposition of antidumping duties leads to pass-through of the duties in US pricing, as well as the effect that the imposition of antidumping duties has on exchange rate pass-through. The authors hypothesize a pass-through of duties well in excess of 100 percent based on their understanding of the US antidumping calculation. However, the hypothesis is based on an incorrect understanding of the antidumping calculation under US law; when corrected for this error, the hypothesis would lead to a prediction of simple 100 percent pass-through, at most.