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This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing additional information to exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the rules of the WTO system. It highlights new information generation and dissemination initiatives undertaken by the WTO Secretariat, Global Trade Alert, and the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis-era trade barriers that these initiatives have identified, the paper describes ways in which the new sources of rich and detailed data may be used to further assist developing country exporters that may lack the capacity to sufficiently monitor their trading interests by relying solely on private resources.

Antidumping --- Antidumping Database --- Dispute settlement --- Dispute settlement process --- Economic Crisis --- Economic Theory & Research --- Emerging Markets --- Exporters --- Foreign market --- Foreign markets --- Free Trade --- Global Trade --- International Economics and Trade --- International market --- International trade --- Law and Development --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Market access --- Multilateral negotiations --- Positive externalities --- Private Sector Development --- Trade barriers --- Trade flows --- Trade Law --- Trade policies --- Trade Policy --- Trade restrictions --- World trade

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Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most frequent users of the WTO-sanctioned antidumping trade policy instrument. This paper exploits newly available data to examine the pattern of actual industrial use of antidumping in nine of the major "new user" developing countries - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and Venezuela. For these countries we are able to match data from two newly available sources: data on production in 28 different 3-digit ISIC industries from the Trade, Production and Protection Database to data on antidumping investigations, outcomes and imports at the 6-digit Harmonized System (HS) product level from the Global Antidumping Database. Our econometric analysis is to estimate a two-stage model of the industry-level decision to pursue an antidumping investigation and the national government's decision of whether and how much antidumping import protection to provide. First, we find evidence consistent with the theory of endogenous trade policy: larger industries that face substantial import competition are more likely to pursue an antidumping investigation, and larger and more concentrated industries receive greater antidumping protection from imports. Second, we find that industries that use antidumping are more likely to face the changing economic conditions specified by the technical evidentiary criteria of the WTO Antidumping Agreement: industries that face rapidly falling import prices are more likely to pursue an investigation, and industries that are more susceptible to cyclical dumping due to greater capital investment expenditures and that face rapidly increasing competition from imports receive greater antidumping protection.

Access --- Antidumping --- Antidumping Database --- Antidumping Measures --- Antidumping Policy --- Currencies and Exchange Rates --- Domestic Industries --- Economic Theory and Research --- Economic Welfare --- Exporters --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Free Trade --- Globalization and Financial Integration --- Import Competition --- Import Penetration --- Import Prices --- Import Protection --- Import Restrictions --- Industrial Management --- Industry --- International Economics & Trade --- Law and Development --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Price Discrimination --- Public Sector Development --- Tariffs --- Trade Law --- Trade Liberalization --- Trade Policies --- Trade Policy --- Water and Industry --- Water Resources --- World Trade --- World Trade Organization