e considered a per se violation of fair trade rules since injury was presumed to exist from the export subsidy itself. Not until the Trade Agreement Act was passed did the United States accept the material injury test which had been adopted by GATT.
The antidumping provisions of United States trade law were amended by the 1979 Act. They were prepared to reflect the Agreement on the Implementation of Article VI of the GATT which was reached in the Tokyo Round. The main change in the U.S. law with the Act was the introduction of the "material injury" test, which replaced the "injury" test of the 1921 Act. Prior to the 1979 Act, the
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