Origin Rules in EU Anti-dumping Law and Practice: An Update

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.