EC Anti-Dumping Law: A Commentary on Regulation 384/96

Anti-dumping measures are a means of protection against a form of unfair trade practices, namely, selling goods to the Community at less than their true value. Consequently, EC's anti-dumping regulation (Regulation 384/96) potentially affects almost any class of manufactured goods and has wide reaching implications for companies selling or buying goods within the EC. When dumping does take place, the economic impact of dumping on Community industry and the impact of any anti-dumping measures subsequently adopted against the exporters found to be dumping, may well be as significant as that resulting from a competition investigation. Written by members of the European Commission dealing with the area regulated by the anti-dumping regulation, this text offers additional insight into the subject, particularly since the Regulation 384/96 contains a number of new features to which private practitioners have not yet been able to acquire any practical experience. It provides a detailed commentary on each article of the regulation taken article by article - this commentary is supplemented by an introductory section giving a brief overview of the EC and GATT background with a concluding section dealing with all aspects of judicial review of anti-dumping measures.