Anti-dumping reforms are barking up the wrong tree

According to those sitting on both sides of Federal Parliament dumping is an abhorrent, inexcusable practice that harms Australian manufacturing. The shared view is we need to get tougher on dumping to protect Australian manufacturers from importers who cheat global trade rules.

Most recently the government proposed to establish an Anti-Dumping Commission dedicated to investigating applications by Australian industry for the imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing duty measures.

Legislation to establish the Commission was recently debated in Parliament. All sides of politics united in condemning dumping and improving the anti-dumping system to deal with dumped and subsidised imports better.