Former Commerce official: New AD/CVD rules fix loopholes, inefficiencies

The Commerce Department on Monday published the first overhaul of antidumping and countervailing duty regulations in more than 20 years, aiming to close loopholes and address inefficiencies following a years-long effort that was essentially completed by the end of the Trump administration, according to a former Commerce official who led the push to craft the new regulations. The 282-page rule is fundamentally unchanged from a version signed in January by Jeffrey Kessler before he left his post as assistant secretary...