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Anti-dumping investigations are initiated when a country suspects that its domestic industry is threatened by imports sold at unfairly cheap prices. They may result in the levying of extra duties on dumped goods. According to the World Bank,the number of investigations initiated rose during the global economic crisis. The number of new cases in 2008 was 101,up from 73 in 2007. Last year the number went up again,to 106. Fewer anti-dumping cases began in the last three months of 2009 than in the previous quarter,mainly because an upsurge in such investigations by rich countries in the third quarter subsided. In 2009,developing countries were behind nearly 70 per cent of cases,up from 58 per cent in 2007. 2010
