Perspectives on Countervailing Duties

Abstract

This comment primarily reflects its author's reactions to the article"A Search for Economic and Financial Principles in the Administration of U.S. countervailing Duty Law" by Professor Richard Diamond. However, to some extent it also addresses a 1989 work by the principal author, and a paper by Goetx, Granet and Schwartz, to which Professor Diamond's 1989 replies. While this comment will raise some fundamental objections to the central theses of the article, it also demonstrates an admiration for the analysis undertaken. That analysis, perhaps modified, can substantially contribute to the national and international debate on this subject.