A nutshell guide to anti-dumping action

Abstract

Dumping takes place when a manufacturer exports a product at less than the price at which the same product is sold on its domestic market. This indicates price discrimination between the domestic and export markets. This article briefly sets out the key issues to provide an introduction to the topic, as very little has been written on anti-dumping in South Africa since the advent of the World Trade Organisation (the WTO) in 1995. Such a brief note, however, cannot properly set out each of the issues pertaining to anti-dumping investigations and these issues will form the basis of more in-depth analysis in future.