China’s Non-state Enterprises and Anti-Dumping Practices: A Perspective

Abstract

This paper discusses and analyses China’s non-state enterprises and the severe challenges they face in responding to overseas anti-dumping investigations. It begins by presenting a general overview of China’s non-state enterprises in its trade regime. It then moves to address and analyse anti-dumping challenges that China’s non-state enterprises have encountered in the past. It further discusses some issues regarding anti-dumping laws and policies adopted by China’s major trading partners against Chinese exports and their impact on China’s non-state enterprises. The paper concludes that more intensive efforts should be made by governments, enterprises and other national and international organizations to construct a more balanced synthetic system to prevent and control the occurrence of dumping. Such a system should not focus on how and what measures should be undertaken after the occurrence of dumping and thus trying to prosecute (for the importing country) or fight the case (for the exporting country or respondents) but should assist these enterprises in transferring from a price-oriented competition to a product quality or technology-oriented competition. This will not only facilitate China’s own domestic reform in economics and trade but will also, in turn, play a constructive role in promoting stability and growth in the world trading system at large.