The Canadian International Trade Tribunal published a report this week titled “The Impact of Canadian Antidumping and Countervailing Measures on Domestic Shipments, Investments, Employment and Imports: 1989-2014.” The report evaluates the impact of Canadian antidumping and countervailing measures by estimating what Canadian shipments, investments, employment and imports would have been if the trends that existed prior to the imposition of the measures had continued.
As of December 31, 2014, there were 53 antidumping and countervailing measures in place. They affected $8 billion in Canadian shipments, $500 million in investments, and nearly 22,000 jobs in the domestic industries directly benefitting from the measures. In addition, the measures affected $1.4 billion in imports.