There is an ongoing and often heated debate in developing countries on whether WorldTrade Organization (WTO) requirements for trade liberalization serve the interests of thesenations. Accordingly, the instruments used to regulate trade, such as antidumping laws, areexceedingly important. This timely work examines the use of antidumping laws as 'temporaryadjustment' safety valves: measures to help developing domestic industries suddenly exposedto international competition cope with the new market conditions