This article examines the role of origin rules in EU anti–dumping law and practice. It analyses the use of such rules as an operative tool during the investigative process and as an enforcement mechanism once anti–dumping measures are imposed and compares their operation with third country anti–circumvention mechanisms. It concludes that harmonization of non–preferential origin rules remains desirable, but that such harmonization realistically should go hand in hand with the establishment of third country anti–circumvention legislation.
Global Trade and Customs Journal