Rent Seeking: The Potash Dispute between Canada and the United States
分析1987年美国对加拿大钾肥征收反补贴税的理论基础，发现美国钾肥生产商从诉讼中获益远小于使用加拿大钾肥的美国农民。
Abstract Despite the Canada‐United States Free Trade Agreement, border disputes involving agricultural trade are common. A theoretical basis for the 1987 U.S. countervailing duty case against Canadian exports of potash is developed using excess capacity arguments. Empirically, within a rent‐seeking context, the U.S. potash producers gained far less from their legal action against Canada than did U.S. farmers who are significant users of Canadian potash.