Antidumping duties are a type of customs duties that apply when goods imported into Russia are offered at lower prices than on the domestic market. This is done in order to protect the interests of the domestic producer: it is logical to assume that cheap imports will easily win the confidence of the Russian consumer. At the same time, our companies producing similar products will be forced (hypothetically, of course) to scale back production, or at least be limited by the technological capacities at their disposal. Just to prevent this from happening, the state takes additional regulatory measures that impede the development of negative scenarios.
Antidumping duties are still a necessary measure, which does not apply to all countries and multinational companies. Its introduction almost always seems to be a reciprocal step - nevertheless, it is reasonable to consider the offer of a product line at dumping prices as one of the manifestations of unfriendly competition.
As for the steps taken, an additional tool is used, such as ranking of customs rates with respect to countries of origin. As a result, anti-dumping duties. In this case, the effect of the state subsidy used in the interests of certain export products is leveled. However, here it is necessary to consider the following: most countries of the world are part of the "economic UN", the WTO, which establishes and regulates general rules of international trade. Therefore, despite obvious advantages, anti-dumping, as well as countervailing duties, are viewed negatively and are not welcomed by the majority of members of this organization.
Regarding the technical side of the issue. Anti-dumping duties are introduced, according to Russian law, only when a purposeful dumping policy has been documented, and the facts of curtailing domestic industrial capacities have been recorded. In addition, the relationship between dumping and falling production must be proven. To do this, a special anti-dumping investigation is carried out after statements by leaders of the affected industry. We also note that government agencies only respond if the share of the affected party in the domestic market exceeds 50%.
However, there is a different scenario. The investigation yielded no results. However, the state is obliged to respond to the statement of “techies”. Therefore, administrative measures can be applied to identical products from a particular country, for example, in general, to liquors, cheeses, waters or cars imported from a particular state. In this case, import duties are introduced, that is, additional tax obligations that make these products unprofitable in terms of building a sales system. The measure is mostly temporary, but politically effective, as it allows the domestic producer to "rest" and survive difficult times.