Key lawmakers push updated bill to tighten trade remedy laws

Lawmakers in both chambers on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that would provide the Commerce Department new trade remedy enforcement tools to counter evolving challenges posed by China and others. The “ Level the Playing Field 2.0 Act ,” re-introduced in the Senate by Senate Finance Committee members Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Todd Young (R-IN), with some changes to a prior version, would create a category of “successive” investigations that would allow Commerce to act more nimbly when companies seek to evade...