The Blocking Legislation as a Countermeasure to the US Anti-Dumping Act of 1916: A Comparative Analysis of the EC and Japanese Damage Recovery Legislation

摘要

The Law is destined to be short-lived because it will expire when all of the pending suits in the United States against Japanese companies are finished. However, it is the first time that the Japanese government enacted a blocking statute or a clawback statute as a countermeasure to a foreign law which is inconsistent with the WTO Agreement. The Law may be an important precedent in the Japanese trade policy and may indeed signify a shift of trade policy toward "aggressive legalism".