Footnote:
In: Journal of International Trade & Commerce, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 131-150, August 2016
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 25, 2016 erstellt
Description:
The Market Economy Status (MES) issue has come to the top of the international agenda, bringing heated discussions on whether or not China will soon be granted this status after December 11, 2016. Until 2014, there has been a total of 1052 Anti-Dumping (AD) investigations initiated against China, ranking it the first in the world. One of the reasons for this is that China is still treated as a Non-Market Economy (NME) by many other countries or politico-economic unions, represented by the United States (U.S.) and the European Union (EU). The U.S. and the EU reserve their own “market economy test” practice for goods from China, which allows the derogation from general price comparability methodology and in turn causes damaging effects to China. To address the problem of whether China should be treated as a Market Economy (ME) in AD investigations, this study tries to examine the ME indicators used both in Chinese domestic studies and foreign studies. Finally, by comparing and combing the U.S. and the EU scholars' suggestions on what their government should do as the 2016 expiration date approaches, this study presents four scenarios that might unfold by the U.S. and the EU and the corresponding Chinese government alternatives