Trade remedies are trade policy tools to cope with ‘unfair’ or ‘distortive’ trade practices. ‘Unfair’ trade comes in many forms and guises, such as dumping, subsidisation, cartel agreements, price-fixing, the abuse of a dominant position on the market among others. Trade remedy measures aim to protect domestic industries from the harmful effects of unfair or increasing imports. However, these measures themselves might have trade-distortive effects or be used in the disguise of trade protectionism. Beyond trade distortions, they may also alter distributional effects, affect vested interest and access to resources among others. From a socio-economic dimension, there may be effects on employment.
International Economics (IEC), with funding from ARISE+ Indonesia, provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Trade of Indonesia in developing a trade remedy impact assessment methodology, as well as an implementation plan for testing the methodology.
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