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D-dumping Dictionary

Dumping

Exporting a product at a price below its normal value in the home market

All termsIntroduced in Module 7Open the Toolkit
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Plain meaning
Exporting a product at a price below its normal value in the home market
How to use it
Check whether imports are selling below their home-market price. Dumped imports set a price ceiling the local venture must survive.
South African benchmark
Article 78 records South Africa's repeated anti-dumping actions against imported chicken.
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
C7 Lesson 7.3, M11-U3, M12-U3
Calculate it
No calculator; the term is applied in the venture plan narrative.
Library sources
LIB-A078
See also
Anti-dumping duty, Import parity price
Map of trade flows from South Africa into the four local marketsSouth AfricaZimbabweZambiaBotswanaNamibiaTrade corridorsSouth Africa supplies the regionImport parity sets the ceilingExport parity sets the floorBans and levies move the priceMain flows
From Module 7, Trade and Policy, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in C7 Trade and Policy.