Plant-Level Responses to Antidumping Duties: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturers

By Justin R. Pierce. 2011

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This paper describes the effects of a temporary increase in tariffs on the performance and behavior of U.S. manufacturers. Using a dataset that includes the full population of U.S. manufacturing plants, I show that an apparent positive correlation between antidumping duties and traditional revenue productivity is likely misleading. For the subset of plants reporting quantity-based output data, increases in prices and markups artificially inflate the effect of antidumping duties on revenue productivity, while physical productivity actually falls. Moreover, antidumping duties allow low-productivity plants to continue producing protected products, slowing the reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive uses.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Codes over Time (2012, background): “Empirical researchers including Bernard et al. (2010, 2011), Bernard et al. (2009), Goldberg et al. (2010) and Pierce (2011), increasingly use product-level data to study trends in exports, imports and domestic production.”
The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment (2013, unknown): “NTR Gapp represents the NTR gap for m = {Own,Upstream,Downstream}; for each dependent variable, we report estimates for speci cations that both exclude and include the up- and downstream NTR gaps.(46) All speci cations use the annual plant-level data available (45)Ellison, Glaeser and Kerr (2010), f”
The Production Relocation and Price Effects of US Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines (2019, unknown): “Indeed, as shown by Pierce (2011) for a broader set of industries, domestic plants protected from antidumping duties tend to exhibit increased prices and markups.”
New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment (2018, background): “Investigating the US steel industry, Oster (1982) shows that large US producers were relatively slow in adopting new blast-furnace technologies during the 1970s, a factor which may have contributed to the rise in steel imports from their faster-adopting Japanese rivals.”