According to Paula Stern, a former commissioner of the International Trade Commission, the number of anti-dumping cases filed in 1987 actually declined by 42 percent.

Rule Increasingly Used With hindsight, growing friction over anti-dumping cases is not difficult to explain.

The final pact does call for several highly technical changes in the rules for anti-dumping cases.

American manufacturers of flat screens, which had brought the anti-dumping case against the Japanese manufacturers last year, hailed the decision.

In the period from 1980 to 1985 the major industrial countries filed over 1,000 anti-dumping cases and more than 400 anti-subsidy cases.

We still never hear Ministers support the anti-dumping case.

Can the Commission provide any information on why no anti-dumping cases were accepted in the first half of 2007?

As in all anti-dumping cases, each party including the Commission and the complainants retain the right to request or initiate a review.

Setbacks to Both Sides In the anti-dumping case, both sides have struck blows.

"I have fought to enforce the anti-dumping laws, first as a long-time Government official, then as lawyer for plaintiffs in anti-dumping cases," he said.