Abstract:
It is a new situation that Anti-dumping and Countervailing Investigations against China have been in linkage in recent years. According to the new situation and characteristics of the linkage investigations against China, this research made an empirical research by using the related data of 44 Linkage Investigations cases filed against China initiated by United States, Canada, and Australia from the year 2004 to 2010, based on“BC-NB” model of decision factors for linkage investigations between anti-dumping and countervailing. It selected the variables and different methods from the launching perspective and targeted perspective respectively to test and verify. The results show that the import and export trade condition, exchange rate conditions, economic growth situation and macroscopical decision-making factors are all the significant decision factors of the Linkage Investigations between Anti-dumping and Countervailing. In accordance with trade practices in China, it makes the following suggestions: China should improve the structure of foreign trade, encourage foreign direct investment, and promote the trade balance effectively; it should enhance its economic strength constantly, and promote the upgrading of the industrial structure; it should reject trade protectionism, improve and perfect foreign trade remedy system.