countervailability

English edit

Etymology edit

countervail +‎ -ability

Noun edit

countervailability (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic of being countervailable; the ability to be countervailed; compensability.
    • 1988, David E. Birenbaum, The 1988 Trade Law: What It Affects and What It Means, page 74:
      The only exception to countervailability of such broadly available government programs would have been for access
    • 2010, Richard Boltuck, Robert E. Litan, Down in the Dumps: Administration of the Unfair Trade Laws, page 224:
      Not only would that allow countervailability to be based on almost any governmental activity in the exporting country; it also would present insuperable problems of allocation at the measurement stage in attempting to assess the aliquot share of benefits of education, stable currency, and so on, represented in the exported goods.