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Foundations of Business (MindTap Course List)

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Author:William M. Pride, Robert J. Hughes, Jack R. Kapoor

Publisher:William M. Pride, Robert J. Hughes, Jack R. Kapoor

Chapter3: Global Business

Section3.5B: International Economic Organizations Working To Foster Trade

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Why is dumping so popular? Oddly enough, the WTO has a hard time prohibiting it.

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Introduction

Dumping is an international trade concept. In this exporters export their goods to a foreign country and sell them at a price lower their domestic price. Essentially, exporters "dump" their prices to create competition with producers and sellers of the foreign country i.e. Importing country.

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The biggest reason for its popularity is the fact that producers can flood new or old markets with extremely low priced goods.
It is beneficial for the exporters because of the various subsidies provided to them by the governments.
The exporter can bring in employees from their domestic country to the foreign country and create employment.
This employment generation leads to exporters becoming industry leaders.
For the consumers, dumping helps by lowering the prices of the good and helps enable easy access to the product.

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