Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:33:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio Kaminski Alves.pdf: 2246216 bytes, checksum: 3ea291af298d8ae68381e6c22f3e2b84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aims at analyzing the impacts of the antidumping action imposed to Brazilian shrimp farmers by the North-American fishing industry, as well as its effects on the economic development of the Microregion Coast of Aracati (Ceará, Brazil), from 2003 to 2010. It is an exploratory research in conformity with the theoretical and methodological framework presented in Lüdke and André (1986). The research sought to highlight facts of reality through representative samples of the three links of the production chain of shrimp grown in captivity, namely: a) laboratories/hatcheries; b) shrimp farms; c) the processing industry/exporter. For field research, the questionnaire was chosen as an instrument of data collection, and four types of questionnaires were developed and submitted. With regard to the bibliography, theoretical support was sought in the field s literature, reference works, dissertations and theses, scientific papers, official texts of antidumping legislation, and research on sites of WTO and other national and international institutions. In this study, two forms of analysis and interpretation of facts and figures were used: firstly, a qualitative analysis was carried out for the interpretation of the phenomena focused in the investigated object; secondly, a quantitative test was done by calculating the location quotient LQ, with the use of the methodology proposed by Hildebrand and Mace (1950). The study presents a mapping of the aquaculture in Ceará based on data collection of formal employment at RAIS. The analysis of the collected data evidenced the features of the shrimp farming in the Microregion Coast of Aracati (Ceará), and regarding the antidumping action, it was found that it is a factor that interferes with the development of shrimp farming. Concerning the perspectives for the sector, three challenges that require special attention are described: a) implementation of policies to support large enterprises and social inclusion policies, with the incorporation of the small farmer to the activity; b) support to inland shrimp farming with the shrimp L. vannamei, adapted to the reservoir waters and perennial rivers; c) consolidation of public bodies concerning the sector, such as the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture (MFA) and the Law of Fishing and Aquaculture, as well as the creation of the new Forest Code. In addition, it is noteworthy the foundation of Embrapa Aquaculture, in the context of the Law that created the MFA, unfolding a new perspective on the generation and distribution of technologies for the Brazilian aquaculture industry. / Esta pesquisa tem como proposta analisar os impactos causados pela ação antidumping imposta aos produtores de camarão brasileiros pela indústria de pesca norte-americana, assim como seus efeitos sobre o desenvolvimento econômico para a Microrregião Litoral de Aracati CE, no período de 2003 a 2010. Trata-se de pesquisa de caráter exploratório, conforme pressupostos teórico-metodológicos apresentados por Lüdke e André (1986). Na pesquisa, buscou-se evidenciar fatos da realidade por meio de amostras representativas dos três elos da cadeia produtiva do camarão produzido em cativeiro, sendo: a) laboratórios/larvicultura; b) fazendas de produção; c) indústria beneficiadora/exportador. Para a pesquisa de campo, elegeu-se como instrumento de coleta de dados o questionário, sendo elaborados e aplicados quatro tipos de questionários. Com relação ao suporte bibliográfico, buscou-se respaldo teórico na literatura da área, obras de referência, dissertações e teses produzidas, artigos científicos, textos oficiais de legislação antidumping, pesquisa em sites da OMC e em outros órgãos institucionais nacionais e internacionais. Nesta pesquisa, foram utilizadas duas formas de análise e interpretação dos fatos e dados: primeiramente, uma análise qualitativa, para a interpretação dos fenômenos focalizados no objeto investigado; em um segundo momento, foi utilizado um teste quantitativo, calculando-se o quociente locacional QL, em que, para o cálculo do QL, utilizou-se a metodologia proposta por Hildebrand e Mace (1950). A pesquisa apresenta um mapeamento da localização da aquicultura no Ceará, realizado a partir da coleta de dados do emprego formal na RAIS. Verificou-se, a partir da analise dos dados coletados, o perfil da carcinicultura na Microrregião Litoral de Aracati CE, e quanto à ação antidumping, constatou-se que a mesma é um dos fatores que interfere no desenvolvimento da atividade da carcinicultura. Com relação a perspectivas para o setor, descrevem-se três desafios que demandam atenção especial: a) implementação de políticas de apoio aos grandes empreendimentos e políticas de inclusão social com a incorporação do pequeno produtor à atividade; b) apoio à interiorização da carcinicultura com o camarão L. vannamei, adaptado às águas dos reservatórios e rios perenes; c) consolidação de órgãos públicos voltados ao setor, a exemplo do Ministério da Pesca e Aquicultura e a Lei de Aquicultura e Pesca, e criação do novo Código Florestal. Adicionalmente, cita-se a criação da Embrapa Aquicultura, no contexto da Lei que criou o MPA, abrindo uma nova perspectiva para a geração e distribuição de tecnologias para o setor aquícola brasileiro.

The diploma thesis analyzes instruments of the Common Commercial Policy of the European Union applied on imports of goods to the EU, both through their application in practice and based on the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The thesis deals with customs duties, quantitative restrictions, safeguards and non-tariff instruments, anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures and safety and other exceptions. Based on the findings, strengths and weaknesses of their practical application are identified and in the conclusion, some of the possible improvements to the current situation are proposed.

This thesis consists of three chapters. The first two are regarding the political economy of international trade, the third is about empirical banking.Chapter 1 is titled "Suspiciously Timed Trade Disputes" and it is the result a joint work with Paola Conconi, David DeRemer, Georg Kirchsteiger, and Maurzio Zanardi. This Chapter is already published in the Volume 105 of the Journal of International Economics and it shows that electoral incentives crucially affect the initiation of trade disputes. Focusing on WTO disputes filed by the United States during the 1995-2014 period, we find that U.S. presidents are more likely to initiate a dispute in the year preceding their re-election. Moreover, U.S. trade disputes are more likely to involve industries that are important in swing states. To explain these regularities, we develop a theoretical model in which re-election motives can lead an incumbent politician to file trade disputes to appeal to voters motivated by reciprocity. The second chapter, titled "Trade Policy and the China Syndrome", analyzes how trade policy can be used to smooth the effects of trade liberalizations. The recent backlash against free trade is partially motivated by the decline in manufacturing employment due to rising import competition from China. Politicians in high-income countries have extensively used antidumping (AD) measures and other temporary trade barriers to protect their economies from rising Chinese imports. To estimate the causal effect of trade protection on industry outcomes, I construct a new instrument for AD measures based on the importance of an industry in swing states and the industry's experience at filing AD petitions. In this paper, I first show that trade policy contained the rise of Chinese imports in protected sectors, decreasing the annual growth rate of US imports from China in a range between 3% and 14% compared to the non-protected sectors. Second, I show that these protectionist measures have contained the "China Syndrome". In manufacturing sectors protected by AD measures, the annual growth rate of employment was between 2% and 24% higher compared to non-protected sectors. I find that previous studies that neglect the moderating impact of AD have underestimated the negative effects of Chinese import competition on US manufacturing employment by between 5% and 15%.The third chapter, titled "Bank Lending Standards and Credit to Firms during the Great Recession", is a joint work with Lorenzo Ricci and Giovanni Soggia. This chapter investigates the impact of unforeseen shifts in lending standards on firm credit in Italy on the onset of the Great Recession, using data from the Regional Bank Lending Survey to disentangle the effects of loan supply and demand.We combine our measure of change in bank supply with bank-firm loans retrieved from the credit register. Our proposed empirical strategy presents several benefits: it allows us to (i) estimate the impact of credit supply in the absence of an exogenous shock to banks, (ii) analyze credit policy throughout the sample period, and (iii) disentangle the effect of geographical heterogeneity within Italy using the rich information from our survey data. The effect of supply shocks differs across types of loans. A firm with a revocable credit line from a bank that tightens its lending standards suffers a reduction in credit growth more than if it had borrowed from a bank with unchanged lending standard. On the extensive margin, a supply shock decreases the acceptance probability of a new loan with a pronounced effect for term loans. / Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

L’objet de cette recherche est d’examiner, selon les règles et la jurisprudence de l’OMC, la définition et le contenu du dommage causé par le dumping à une branche de production de l’industrie nationale. Cela nécessite, d’une part, d’établir les éléments qui entrent en ligne de compte dans le calcul du dommage ainsi que dans la détermination de l’existence de ce dommage, et d’autre part, d’identifier un lien de causalité entre le dommage subi et le dumping. Une fois ces éléments établis, les Membres de l’OMC sont autorisés à recourir à des mesures antidumping dont l’objectif est de neutraliser les effets dommageables du dumping et de rétablir l’équilibre dans le marché local. Par conséquent, dans le souci d’éviter que des mesures abusives soient mises en place, les mesures et leur modalité d’application sont prescrites par les règles de l’OMC. Elles sont au nombre de trois, à savoir les droits antidumping provisoires, les droits définitifs et l’engagement de prix. / The purpose of this research is to examine, in accordance with WTO rules and case law, the definition and the content of the injury caused to one part of the domestic industry by dumping. This requires the need to establish the elements to be taken into account when determining then calculating the injury, and to identify a causal link between the injury suffered by the domestic industry and dumping. Once these elements have been established, WTO members are allowed to use anti-Dumping measures aimed at cancelling out the damaging effects of dumping and restoring balance in the local market. Therefore, with the view to avoiding abusive measures to be put in place, WTO rules prescribe three measures which are provisional anti-Dumping duties, definitive duties and price undertaking, as well as their conditions for application.

重商主義時期“獎勵出口重課進口”的對外貿政策，及產業革命後生產力的擴張，使世界範圍內的傾銷大規模形成；二十世紀七○年代以來，「傾銷」已普遍存在於國際貿易之中，而對於「反傾銷」立法和實踐亦進展迅速，從關稅暨貿易總協定成立以來，對於「反傾銷」的立法、修訂一直是談判內容的主要議題。 本文的目的在探討在產品不完全替代下，面對國外持續性傾銷時，若廠商分別從事Cournot數量及Bertrand價格競爭時，如何課徴反傾銷稅？結果發現若廠商進行數量競爭時則：當本國與外國傾銷品相互替代率相同及本國產品對國外傾銷品之替代率大於國外傾銷品對本國產品之替代率時，本國政府可在社會福利最大化下制定反傾銷稅率。若進行價格競爭時則：本國政府無法依社會福利最大之反傾銷稅率制定反傾銷稅率。 / The mercantilist emphasis on expanding exports while restricting imports, coupled with the expansion of productivity seen following the industrial revolution, led to the proliferation of dumping trade practices around the world. “Dumping” has been a formally-recognized and widespread phenomenon in global trade since the 1970s. Against this, national governments have also been quick to implement countervailing laws and legislation. Anti-dumping legislation has been at the fore of international trade discussions since the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) was established. This paper addresses the issue of how countervailing duties may be most effectively assessed in situations where a national product that is not completely substitutable by import competitors suffers sustained competition from imports dumped on the market. To achieve this objective, our research examines the effects on competition that result from the manufacturer of the national product adopting, respectively, Cournot volume and Bertrand pricing strategies. The result shows that, when a volume strategy is adopted, home government imposition of countervailing duties will be able to maximize social benefit when either domestic and imported (dumped) products share a similar substitutability ratio or the substitutability ratio of the domestic product is greater than that of the imported competition. When a pricing strategy is adopted, the government is, conversely, not in a position to impose a countervailing duty that will maximize social benefit.

De nos jours, le multilatéralisme et le libre échange sont le fondement du système économique. La participation de la Thaïlande à l'OMC et au FMI joue un rôle incontournable dans les stratégies de développement du pays. En tant que pays en développement et malgré certaines dispositions particulières en sa faveur, l'influence qu'elle exerce au sein de chaque institution reste limitée. Ce qui l'a conduite à chercher des alliances en regroupant avec les pays qui partagent les mêmes positions pour mieux se faire entendre.Grâce à cette participation, le gouvernement thaïlandais dispose d'une source de financement en cas de crise économique et financière. Il peut mieux mener les politiques commerciales dont l'accent a été mis sur la promotion des exportations et avoir un mécanisme de règlement des différends qui lui permettent de défendre les intérêts de ses producteurs de manière plus efficace surtout lorsqu'il s'agit d'un différend avec des pays développés. Mais face à des limites du système multilatéral à vocation universelle (impasse du Cycle de Doha, problème de la conditionnalité de l'aide et de l'efficacité des mesures prévues par le FMI), la Thaïlande est retournée plus vers le bilatéralisme et le régionalisme afin de protéger les intérêts du pays.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. / Department of Government and Public Administration

Orientador: Luiz Antonio Soares Hentz / Banca: Marcos Paulo de Almeida Salles / Banca: Aclibes Bulgarelli / Resumo: O processo de globalização intensificou as relações comerciais entre os países no final do Século XX, tornando mais freqüentes práticas empresariais desleais como o dumping e a respectiva utilização da legislação pertinente pelos países participantes do comércio internacional. A aplicação de medidas antidumping para neutralizar os efeitos da prática desleal protege a concorrência em benefício dos empresários do país importador, entretanto, se essas medidas forem aplicadas com finalidade protecionista, prejudicam a livre concorrência, impedindo a entrada de produtos estrangeiros em condições de concorrência com os produtos nacionais. As análises realizadas demonstraram que a legislação brasileira antidumping, de forma genérica, encontra-se em consonância com as normas da Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC), que direcionam a aplicação de medidas antidumping no âmbito mundial. Apesar da evolução verificada na Rodada Uruguai, o estudo demonstrou a necessidade de algumas alterações na legislação antidumping da OMC para impedir a possibilidade de diferentes interpretações às normas antidumping pelos Países-Membros. As alterações devem proporcionar maior precisão a alguns conceitos presentes na legislação, como os referentes ao valor normal e à comprovação de dano, devendo também impor a aplicação de direitos antidumping em valores suficientes apenas para neutralizar os efeitos da prática desleal. A revisão da legislação antidumping mostra-se fundamental para a consolidação das normas antidumping no âmbito mundial e, sobretudo, para assegurar sua finalidade de proteger a concorrência em benefício dos empresários locais, sem causar prejuízos à concorrência internacional. / Abstract: The globalization process increased commercial relations among the countries at the end of the twentieth century, making more frequent disloyal enterprise practice like dumping and the respective utilization of apt legislation towards countries of the international trade. The aplication of antidumping measurement to neutralize the effects of disloyal practice protects the competition in the businessmenþs benefit of importer country, howerver, if these measures were applied with protecting goals they would damage the free competition, holding back the entry of foreign products in terms of competition, holding back the entry of foreign products in terms of competition with the national products. The analysis made, show that antidumping brazilian legislation, in general, is along with the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), that take control of the aplication of antidumping measures in the world. In spite of the evolution checked in the Uruguay Round, the study showed the necessity of some alteration in the antidumping legislation of the WTO to avoid the possibility of different interpretations at antidumping rules from member countries. The alterations have to bring bigger precision in some concepts that are present in the legislation, like the referent to the normal value and the damage checking that must impose the application of antidumping dues in enough values only to neutralise the disloyal practice effects. The review of antidumping legislation shows itself essential to the antidumping rules consolidation in the world and, above all, to assure its purpose to protect the competition into the benefit of local businessmen, without causing impairments to the international competition. / Mestre

本篇論文主要在探討石化業發展過程中所面臨之傾銷問題，並對我國進口救濟制度完構以予分析。

On January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into by and between Mexico, Canada and the United States, came into force. Chapter 19 of NAFTA addresses the Review and Dispute Settlement in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Matters. Furthermore, article 1904 of NAFTA, addresses issues related to the Review of Final Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Determinations. The said article stipulates that an involved Party may request that a panel review, based on the administrative record, a final antidumping or countervailing duty determination of a competent investigating authority of an importing Party. The object of such review is to determine whether the determination was in accordance with the antidumping or countervailing duty law of the importing Party. In order to review such determination, the panel shall apply the standard of review set out in Annex 1911 of NAFTA, and the general legal principles that a court of the importing Party otherwise would apply to review a determination of the competent investigating authority. / Since these kinds of regulations are quite new in the Mexican legal system, the interpretation of the standard of review, has raised a lot of discussion among several panelists, governmental authorities and authors. Therefore, this paper will focus on the application and interpretation of the standard of review under NAFTA chapter 19, mainly by Mexican authorities.