Commerce finalizes sweeping changes to U.S. trade remedy regulations 

The Commerce Department has finalized an overhaul of its trade remedy regulations, clarifying when it can reject home-country price and cost inputs, adding new provisions allowing it to consider lax labor, environment and intellectual property laws, and removing a restriction against investigating transnational subsidies. The changes, first proposed in May 2023 , were subject to a public comment period yielding more than 50 responses. The final regulations are scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on March 25; they...