Lawyers: Trump trade memo suggests expanded use of ‘zeroing’

President Trump’s day-one call for the Commerce Department to review U.S. trade remedy practices suggest the administration is planning to expand its use of “zeroing,” a methodology for calculating dumping margins that has long been a source of disputes between the U.S. and other World Trade Organization members, trade lawyers tell Inside U.S. Trade . Trump on Jan. 20 issued a memorandum calling on yet-to-be-confirmed agency heads to review various aspects of U.S. trade policy, including the Commerce Department's application...