Implementation of China’s Anti-Dumping Policy on Australian Wine: A Legal Review of the Anti-Dumping Agreement

One of the unfair trades in international trade is dumping, a competition by selling export products in the import market at prices below normal prices. GATT/WTO has attempted to establish regulations on anti-dumping as an effort to protect countries injured by dumping products through Anti-Dumping Agreement. China issued one of the anti-dumping policies on exported wine products from Australia, which were suspected of dumping products and causing material injury to China’s domestic wine products. Due to that matter, China imposed an anti-dumping duty of 218.4% for some wine products from Australia. This study used a normative juridical approach and the legal materials collected through a literature study. The result of this study indicates the initiation of China’s anti-dumping investigation is following the procedures in the Anti-Dumping Agreement, but the imposition of anti-dumping duties is inconsistent with the data, and the calculation of the margin of dumping is deemed inaccurate because there is a lack of representative data obtained from Australian wine producers. The implications of China’s anti-dumping policy impact Australian wine export with a significant downfall over a period of 2 years.