Global Antidumping Database, Chad P. Bown

	AD-using Country/ Territory (Importer)	Country Code (3-letter CTY)	Excel Workbook File Name and Link to Data	Years of Data in GAD	Year of Country’s First AD Initiation (AD Law)†	Current Version (last updated)	Source(s) of Data: Links to Government Publications/Websites (‡ denotes detailed data not available in English)

1.	Argentina	ARG	AD-ARG-v6.0.xls	1996- 2009	na (1972)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) Comision Nacional de Comercio Exterior (National Foreign Trade Commission) · ‡ (Spanish) Ministro de Economia y Finanzas Publicas (Ministry of the Economy and Public Finance)
2.	Australia	AUS	AD-AUS-v6.0.xls	1989- 2009	Early 1950s (1906)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· Australia’s Customs and Border Protection Service
3.	Brazil	BRA	AD-BRA-v6.0.xls	1988- 2009	1988 (1987)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Portuguese) Ministerio do Desenvolvimento, Industria e Comercio Exterior (Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade)
4.	Canada	CAN	AD-CAN-v6.0.xls	1985- 2009	na (1904)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· Canada’s Border Services Agency (CBSA) · Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
5.	Chile**	CHL	AD-CHL-v6.0.xls	1995- 2009	1994 (1986)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) Comision Nacional Encargada de Investigar la Existencia de Distorsiones en el Precio de las Mercaderias Importadas (National Commission Entrusted with Investigating the Existence of Price Distortions in Imported Goods) · ‡ (Spanish) Diario Oficial
6.	China	CHN	AD-CHN-v6.0.xls	1997- 2009	1997 (1997)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Chinese) Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)
7.	Colombia	COL	AD-COL-v6.0.xls	1991- 2009	1991 (1990)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo - Direccion de Comercio Exterior (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism - Division of International Trade)
8.	Costa Rica	CRI	AD-CRI-v6.0.xls	1996- 2009	1996 (1996)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Comercio (Ministry of the Economy, Industry, and Trade)
9.	Ecuador	ECU	AD-ECU-v6.0.xls	1998- 2009	na	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) Consejo de Comercio Exterior e Inversiones (COMEXI)
10.	European Union	EUN	AD-EUN-v6.0.xls	1987- 2009	1968 (na)	v6.0‡ (Mar 2010)	· Official Journal of the European Communities (EUR-Lex)
11.	India	IND	AD-IND-v6.0.xls	1992- 2009	1992 (1985)	v6.0‡ (Mar 2010)	· Government of India’s Department of Commerce
12.	Indonesia	IDN	AD-IDN-v6.0.xls	1996- 2009	1996 (1995)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Indonesian) Indonesia's Directorate General of Customs & Excise
13.	Jamaica	JAM	AD-JAM-v6.0.xls	2000- 2009	na	v6.0‡ (Mar 2010)	· Antidumping and Subsidies Commission
14.	Japan*	JPN	AD-JPN-v5.0.xls	1982- 2009	1982 (1920)	v5.0 (July 2009)	· WTO Committee on Antidumping – Master sheet information only
15.	Malaysia	MYS	AD-MYS-v5.0.xls	1995-2009	na (1959)	v5.0 (July 2009)	· WTO Committee on Antidumping - However, for most recent cases Malaysia has reported Harmonised System (HS) product codes
16.	Mexico	MEX	AD-MEX-v6.0.xls	1987- 2009	1987 (1986)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) Unidad de Prácticas Comerciales Internacionales (UPCI, International Trade Practices Unit)
17.	New Zealand	NZL	AD-NZL-v6.0.xls	1995- 2009	na (1921)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· New Zealand’s Ministry of Economic Development
18.	Pakistan	PAK	AD-PAK-v6.0.xls	2002- 2009	2002 (1983)	v6.0‡ (Mar 2010)	· Pakistan’s National Tariff Commission
19.	Paraguay	PRY	AD-PRY-v6.0.xls	1999- 2009	na	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) Ministerio del Desarollo – Defensa Comercial
20.	Peru	PER	AD-PER-v6.0.xls	1992- 2009	1992 (1991)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) La Comision de Fiscalizacion de Dumping y Subsidios (Peru’s Commission Investigating Dumping and Subsidies) · ‡ (Spanish) Diario Oficial /Empresa Peruana de Servicios Editoriales S.A.
21.	Philippines	PHL	AD-PHL-v5.0.xls	1994- 2009	1994 (1994)	v5.0 (July 2009)	· Philippines Tariff Commission
22.	South Africa	ZAF	AD-ZAF-v6.0.xls	1992- 2009	1940s or earlier (1914)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) · South African Government Information
23.	South Korea	KOR	AD-KOR-v6.0.xls	1986- 2009	na (1963)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Korean) Korea Trade Commission
24.	Taiwan	TWN	AD-TWN-v6.0.xls	1984- 2009	1984 (1984)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Chinese) International Trade Commission, Ministry of Economic Affairs
25.	Thailand**	THA	AD-THA-v5.0.xls	1996- 2009	1994 (1994)	v5.0 (July 2009)	· WTO Committee on Antidumping - However, for most cases Thailand has reported Harmonised System (HS) product codes
26.	Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	AD-TTO-v6.0.xls	1997- 2009	na	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· Anti-Dumping Authority
27.	Turkey	TUR	AD-TUR-v6.0.xls	1989- 2009	1989 (1989)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Turkish) Dış Ticaret Müsteşarlığı (Undersecretary of the Prime Ministry for Foreign Trade) · ‡ (Turkish) Resmi Gazete (Official Gazette of the Republic of Turkey)
28.	United States	USA	AD-USA-v6.0.xls	1980- 2009	1922 (1916)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· United States International Trade Commission (USITC) · United States Department of Commerce (DOC), International Trade Administration (ITA) – Import Administration · Federal Register
29.	Uruguay	URY	AD-URY-v6.0.xls	1997- 2009	na	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) División de Defensa Comercial y Salvaguardias
30.	Venezuela	VEN	AD-VEN-v6.0.xls	1992- 2009	1992 (1992)	v6.0 (Mar 2010)	· ‡ (Spanish) Venezuela’s Comision Antidumping y Sobre Subsidios

*Notes:* Each country’s (‘CTY’) excel workbook contains four spreadsheets worth of data: AD-CTY-Master, AD-CTY-Products, AD-CTY-Domestic-Firms, and AD-CTY-Foreign-Firms with the exception of countries denoted with a * (Master spreadsheet only) and (Master and Products spreadsheets only). Sources:** † Compiled from Table 1 of Maurizio Zanardi (2004) “Antidumping: What are the Numbers to Discuss at Doha?” The World Economy 27(3): 403-433; Table 1 of Maurizio Zanardi (2006) “Antidumping: a Problem in International Trade,” European Journal of Political Economy 22(3): 591-617; Table 2 of Hylke Vandenbussche and Maurizio Zanardi (2008) “What Explains the Proliferation of Antidumping Laws?” Economic Policy 23(1): 98-103; and Douglas A. Irwin (2005) “The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective,” The World Economy 28 (5): 651-668. ‘na’ indicates ‘not available’. ‡AD removal data as of June 2009 because country had not updated circulating report at the WTO as of October 2009.

OTHER ANTIDUMPING-USER COUNTRIES WITH MINIMAL INFORMATION*

Country Code (3-letter CTY)	Country Name	Excel Workbook File Name	Spreadsheet Names within Country Workbook	Available Years of Data	Current Version (last updated)

BGR CZE EGY GTM ISR LVA LTU NIC PAN POL SVN UKR	Bulgaria Czech Republic Egypt Guatemala Israel Latvia Lithuania Nicaragua Panama Poland Slovenia Ukraine	AD-OTH-v6.0.xls	AD-BGR-Master, AD-CZE-Master, AD-EGY-Master, AD-GTM-Master, AD-ISR-Master, AD-LVA-Master, AD-LTU-Master, AD-NIC-Master, AD-PAN-Master, AD-POL-Master, AD-SVN-Master, AD-UKR-Master,	1995-2009	v6.0 (Mar 2010)

*Source : the data for these users only was obtained via what the using countries reported to the WTO Committee on Antidumping.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: To what extent is the data “comprehensive”?

A: This question requires a multi—layered answer. For any given country, define the “beginning” of the period as the first investigation for which we are able to collect data. After cross-checking what the country reports to the WTO (to verify we have not “missed” any investigations), the data is comprehensive for the period defined from that “beginning” date to the “end” date which is defined as the last date through which the government publicly updated its website by the time at which we last updated the data (see table above). Generally this covers antidumping activity through 2009 for countries that update their public information frequently. The “beginning” year for any given country differs depending on a number of factors including when it began using the law, as well as when the country made the information publicly available and accessible.

A1. For each of the following 16 countries, since they only “recently” adopted and started using antidumping (see table above), the data regarding their initiation of investigations for them in the database is virtually comprehensive:

Brazil, China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela

A2. For each of the following 9 countries whose historical use of antidumping dates back into the 1980s and before, the data does not comprehensively cover their historical use (in the least because it is missing all pre-1980s use of the policy instrument) though the data regarding their initiation of investigations is virtually comprehensive starting with the “beginning” date from which we track the country’s more recent use:

Argentina, Australia, Canada, European Union, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, United States

A3. For each of the following 5 countries, version 5.1 (Oct 2009) for the first time presents detailed data on products and firms, and we have not yet investigated how historically comprehensive this data is for each country

Ecuador, Jamaica, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay

Q: Does the database record industry petitions that result in “non-initiated” cases?

A: To the extent that national governments report the information, if an industry has filed a petition with a government that ended up with the government even refusing to initiate the investigation, we have recorded it in the dataset.