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International Price Discriminationand Dumping
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Niraj Sharma | Ayush Vij
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Agenda• International Price Discrimination
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Dumping• Price Discrimination and Social Welfare
• Price Discrimination and Equity
• Conclusion
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International Price Discrimination• Price discrimination across borders
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When a producer sells in two markets▫ One where he faces perfect competition, and
▫ Another where he enjoys monopoly
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Key Features• Demand curve is perfectly elastic in the market where he faces perfect competition
• Demand curve is sloping downward in themarket where he has monopoly
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Example 1: PharmaceuticalCompanies• Huge price difference
for same medicines
• Ex. USA & Canada
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Example 2: Textbooks• Textbooks cheaper in developing countries vs where they published
• Example: Low Price Edition Textbooks in India
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Dumping
In economics, "dumping" can refer to any kind of predatory pricing (selling at an unfairly low price).
Pr edator yPr
Domestic Firm selling atlower price in home market
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Definition of Dumping• In Context of International Trade Law:
“The act of a manufacturer/firm in one country exporting a product
to another country at a price which is either below the price it chargesin its home market or is below its costs of production."
• Therefore, it is the act of charging a lower price for a good in a
foreign market than one charges for the same good in a domesticmarket.Dum
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Foreign firm selling at lower price in other country.
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Dumping
When,
Export Price
1. Comparable domesticPrice
2. Export Price to a ThirdCountry
3. Cost of Production Plus aReasonable Addition for Selling Cost and Profit
Normal Value
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Dumping Margin
minus
Normal Value of thelike article
Export price of
product under consideration
Domestic priceRs. 150
Export priceRs. 100
Dumping Margin = 150-100 = Rs.50.
Dumping Margin = 33%
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Domestic Industry
The domestic industry is all domestic producersof the product concerned, or those whose collective
output constitutes a major proportion of totaldomestic production of those products.
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Reasons for Dumping• Predatory Dumping
The practice of cutting prices in an attempt todrive a rival out of business or create barriers toentry for potential new competitors.
• Persistent/Strategic Dumping
If a firm has a monopoly in its home market butfaces strong competition in a foreign market, it will
charge a higher price in the home market
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Reasons for Dumping• Cyclical/Sporadic Dumping
Selling at low price because of over capacity dueto downturn in demand.
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Market Expansion DumpingSelling at lower price for export than
domestically in order to gain market share.
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Reasons for Dumping: Summary• The nations dump products to
Eliminate Competition
Secure Monopolies
Increase Share of International Export
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Dumping: Factors• Subsidies
Subsidies (in the exporting country) can lead toaggressive dumping, since goods can be soldprofitably at a price that is cheaper than the cost of manufacture.
• Banned Products
History also sheds light on the numerous
manufacturers that have used dumping to sell off
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Implications of Dumping• Dumping results in the following:
▫ Hurts a country’s domestic industry and producers
▫ Impacts the sales volume
▫ Hurts the market shares▫ Triggers decline in profitability
▫ Leads to job losses
▫ Cause material injury
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Antidumping• Due to the above narrated and other reasons,
countries have incorporated strict anti-dumping
measures.• The very purpose of antidumping measures is to
prop up domestic producers.
Advantages of anti-dumping
• Re-establishes fair trade and fair competition.
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Price Discrimination & SocialWelfare• Difficult to say.
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Partly depends upon whether with the pricedistribution , total output increases or not.
• Keeping output effect away price discrimination will adversely affect the social welfare.
• Under monopoly without price discrimination theoutput is less than the output with pricediscrimination.
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Price Discrimination and Equity• Price is raised for rich and lowered for the poor.
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It has a redistributive effect.• Often done by governments to reduce inequalities
of personal real income.
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EXAMPLES
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Conclusion & Comments
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