Statistics

Global initiations of anti-dumping (AD) investigations have seen significant fluctuations in recent years.
2021 saw the third highest number of AD investigations since the creation of the WTO in 1995.
On average, over the period 1995-2022, around two-thirds of investigations initiated resulted in measures being adopted.
2020 saw the highest level of AD measures ever adopted in a single year.
Looking at trends over longer periods, it is apparent that the past 8 years has seen on average a slightly higher rate of investigations ending with measures compared with the previous two decades (see table below chart).
2021 and the first first six months appear to show a significant drop in cases initiated. For 2022, even on an annualised basis, the number of investigations would be at the lowest levels for this period.

Over the whole period India has initiated the most anti-dumping investigations followed by the United States.
The share of total initiations accounted for by India and the US has been growing over recent years as indicated by the graph below.

China is by far the country most subject to anti-dumping investigations. It accounts for around one quarter of all cases since 1995.

Over the period as whole, metals/steel and chemicals on average account for around one third of the cases respectively.
The first six months of 2022 indicates a significant fall in the number of cases involving the metals sector as shown in the line graph below.

Source: WTO