Question

Why do countries use anti-dumping duties? Why are they just another form of protectionism? Should a country have an anti dumping policy when it has its own trade policy?

Answer 1

Generally countries use anti dumping policy to protect the domestic market and businesses from the unfair competition by foregin import. The domestic country impose anti dumping tariff on foreign exporter when the price of the goods they export is lower than in its own country price.

Anti dumping is a form of protection Because the purpose of anti dumping duty is to raise the price of the commodity when introduce in the market of the importing country. So we can say that anti dumping is a type of tariff that domestic government imposes on foregin import, when import price is below market value.

Yes the country have an anti dumping policy when it has it's own trade policy. Because generally WTO cannot deal and regulate dumping policy. So the anti dumping action only concern the action government may take against dumping. So both exporting and importing country can act against each other.