The most popular methodology used by the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) from 1989 through 1994 to determine whether unfairly traded imports injure competing domestic industries was known as the bifurcated approach. Injury determinations based on this approach have been rejected by...

There is a widespread popular belief that American industry is being destroyed by unfairly traded imports, that is, those that are subsidized or dumped. We test this claim with data (when available) from all final U.S. government countervailing duty and antidumping duty investigations between...