Antidumping Duties, Prices and China: Free Trade to the Rescue?

The recent combination of resurging demand and continuing disruptions in supply chains has led to a worrying return of inflation. In the EU, industry producer prices increased by 12.2 per-cent year-on-year in July 2021. Based on two recent papers, this research brief argues, that re-moving EU antidumping duties would at least partially ease the pressure on input and con-sumer prices. In contrast, the recent abandonment of China's differential treatment in the EU's antidumping legislation might even have contributed to increasing import prices.