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EC anti-dumping policy: Are price undertakings a legal substitute for illegal price fixing?

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Zusammenfassung

Antidumpingpolitik der EG: Sind Preisverpflichtungen ein legaler Ersatz für illegale Preisabsprachen? — Die Mehrzahl der EG-Antidumpingverfahren wird durch Annahme von Preisverpflichtungen abgeschlossen. Preisverpflichtungen können als Ersatz für internationale Preisabsprachen betrachtet werden. Ihr Zweck ist es, die Preise gedumpter Importe zu erhöhen und die Preise konkurrierender EG-Güter zu stabilisieren. Es gibt jedoch keine Anzeichen, daß die Kartellwirkungen von Preisverpflichtungen über die von den EG-Behörden beabsichtigten Schutzwirkungen hinausgehen.

Résumé

La politique anti-dumping de la CE: Les obligations de prix sont-elles un remplacement légal pour des accords illégals sur les prix? — La majorité des procédures anti-dumping de la CE sont réglées par l’acceptation d’une obligation de prix. On peut considérer de telles obligations comme un remplacement pour des conventions internationales de prix. On poursuit le but d’augmenter les prix d’importations affectés par le dumping et de stabiliser les prix des produits de la CE étant en concurrence. Il n’y a pas d’indications que les effets de cartel des obligations de prix dépassent les mesures de défense que les autorités de la CE ont eu en intention.

Resumen

La política antidumping de la CE: ¿son precios guía un substituto legal de concertaciones ilegales de precios? — La mayoría de los procedimientos antidumping de la CE cierran con la aceptatión de precios guía. Precios guia pueden ser considerados como substitutes de concertaciones internacionales de precios. Su fin es elevar los precios de las importaciones bajo dumping y estabilizar los precios de bienes competitivos originarios de la CE. No existen razones, empero, para concluir que el efecto cártel de los precios guia superen el grado de protectión intencionada por la burocracia de la CE.

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Stegemann, K. EC anti-dumping policy: Are price undertakings a legal substitute for illegal price fixing?. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 126, 268–298 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02706360

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