Inside Trade

September 9, 2024

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

By Brett Fortnam  / March 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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...

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