Transparency trap: Anti-Dumping and the pursuit of closer trade cooperation within the EU and the WTO

This article examines the potentially negative consequences of increased transparency in the EU's use of commercial defence instruments such as anti-dumping. It offers a more focused definition of transparency as it applies to the EU and other multilateral regimes, and explores the connections between increased transparency and side-payments offered by governments to internal factions in pursuit of an international agreement. It also develops a graphical approach to trade negotiations between parties who are internally-divided on their support for trade liberalisation, which can be used to portray the impact of heightened transparency upon international trade negotiations.

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