Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92817 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 647
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
We analyze the effect of the Byrd Amendment, which amended the US Tariff Act of 1930 to allow revenue from antidumping duties to be distributed to domestic import-competing firms. In an international duopoly framework it is shown that it urges the home firm to restrict output so that the foreign firm increases output and that revenue from the duties increases. Consequently, not only the home firm but also the foreign firm can be better off while only consumers are worse off. Home total surplus increases if the foreign rival firm is much more efficient, but otherwise decreases.
Subjects: 
Byrd Amendment
Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA)
Antidumping duty
Tariff-revenue distribution
JEL: 
F12
F13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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