Commerce finalizes AD/CVD reg updates, axes ag specificity carveout

The Commerce Department has finalized a slew of updates to its antidumping and countervailing duty regulations, including a revision of an agriculture subsidy rule that has sparked concern in at least two capitals. Commerce earlier this year proposed eliminating a carveout for agricultural subsidies in the department’s specificity test along with numerous other changes the department said were needed either to codify existing practice or reflect changing circumstances. Under Commerce’s previous rules, agricultural subsidies were not subject to the department’s...