Anti-dumping activities in international trade :|a case from the Turkish textile industry

Abstract

A common import protection instrument, anti-dumping duty has been quite controversial despite being already used by many developed and developing countries. Turkey is one of the developing countries that has increased its usage of anti-dumping measures a great deal in the recent years. The impact of these measures on Turkey’s import volumes, however, has not been studied well. Turkey is world’s sixth largest supplier in textile sector and the country GDP highly depends on its profits. Expectedly, this sector is the most protected through anti-dumping duties. Therefore, in this thesis, import data of semi-finished synthetic yarn from 12 countries is analyzed as an illustrative case to observe anti-dumping duties effect on trade volumes in 5 years entailing the preinvestigation, investigation, provisional duties and final duties period. The 6 countries that are subjected to anti-dumping countries are labeled as the named countries, while the 6 countries that were not subjected to these duties are labeled as non-named countries. The results indicate that there were no significant changes on import volumes from named countries of this particular product relative to anti-dumping duty rates. However, implementing anti-dumping duties on named countries ensued the import volumes from non-named countries to increase. Even though it has been suggested otherwise by similar studies in other countries, the import volumes are increased from named countries in the investigation period.