GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM
TRADE REMEDY 

CD28 Outline                                                                         Course Structure Index

Goals
To familiarize students with the detail of one of the more challenging areas of international trade law and provide them with an understanding of why governments have found these very detailed provisions governing particular aspects of international trade both helpful and problematic.

Topics Covered
The course will consider a number of specific antidumping, countervailing duty and escape clause cases, tracing the origins of the problem the remedy is meant to address, the nature of the complaints and defenses, the very detailed procedures and information pursued, and the extent to which the procedures did or did not address the problem

Key Books and Articles
Selected readings from:

 Boltuck, Richard and Robert E. Litan, eds., Down in the Dumps: Administration of the Unfair Trade Laws (Washington: Brookings, 1991).

 Hindley, Brian and Eri Nicolaides, Taking the New Protectionism Seriously, Tharnes Essay No. 34 (London: Trade Policy Research Centre, 1983).

 Jackson, John H., and Edwin Vermulst, eds., Antidumping Law and Practice (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989).

 Nivola, Pietro S., Regulating Unfair Trade (Washington; Brookings Institution, 1992).

 Trebilcock, Michael J. and Robert Howse, - The Regulation of International Trade (New York: Routledge, 1995).

Case Material

 Case material will be available on one antidumping, one countervailing duty, and one escape clause action to be used as the focus for discussion on the specifics of US trade remedy laws.

Criteria for Evaluating Teaching and Student Performance
Students should be able to describe the basic steps and concepts involved in any of the three principal trade remedy measures; a take-home exam will provide students with a hypothetical situation involving the application of one of these remedies.