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Why a cheap import is not automatically dumping

A low import price is dumping only when it sits below the exporter's normal value, not whenever it undercuts locals.

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From the opening

A cheap import is a good offered at a low price in the importing market. It is dumping only if that export price is below the exporter's normal value under the legal comparison, so cheapness by itself does not complete the definition. The opening covers cheap is not the legal test, aligned home and export prices, and injury alone is not dumping.

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Cheap is not the legal test
Aligned home and export prices
Injury alone is not dumping
A cost advantage can be real
Where the idea stops applying
A distinction worth keeping

Sources

Normal value comparison
Price discrimination across markets

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Why a cheap import is not automatically dumping

From the opening

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