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October 21, 2020 by Zachary Walker

Importers Team Up to Undercut Regulations Designed to Improve Enforcement of U.S. Trade Remedy Laws

This August, the Department of Commerce published in the Federal Register notice of proposed Regulations To Improve Administration and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws. The changes proposed by Commerce to the AD/CVD regulations represent the largest such amendment to the agency’s regulations in twenty years. These proposed modifications of Commerce’s existing AD/CVD regulations […]

Filed Under: Antidumping, Enforcement, Import Fraud, International Trade Tagged With: antidumping, countervailing duty, enforcement, import fraud, International Trade, trade

April 24, 2020 by Nathaniel Rickard

Congress Requires CBP to Issue a Detailed Public Report of Its Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Collection Efforts; CBP’s Ignoring Congress

In an October 2019 report, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Collection of Outstanding Claims, prepared for Congress by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”), the agency explained that at the close of fiscal year 2019 there were 64,761 open bills for antidumping and countervailing duties, with a total amount outstanding of US$4.472 billion. These figures represented […]

Filed Under: Antidumping, CBP, Enforcement, Import Fraud, International Trade Tagged With: antidumping, CBP, enforcement, import fraud, International Trade

November 13, 2019 by Lisa Wang

Using AD and CVD Laws to Address Unfair Labor Practices

By: Lisa W. Wang and Sophia J.C. Lin Recent debate about labor standards in the domestic legal systems of our trading partners have focused on labor commitments in bilateral and multilateral treaties, such as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”). Such commitments, although important mechanisms for change in a country’s labor laws, have proven difficult to enforce […]

Filed Under: Antidumping Tagged With: antidumping, countervailing duty, enforcement, free trade agreements, International Trade, labor rights, trade remedies, unfair labor practices

April 13, 2018 by Nathaniel Rickard

Court of International Trade Hobbles an Essential Enforcement Tool

As U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) endeavors to improve enforcement of U.S. trade laws, the option of imposing a single entry bond (“SEB”) requirement on certain types of shipments (or with respect to certain importers) has become much more important. CBP’s enforcement initiatives are, by necessity, largely retrospective in nature. When the agency suspects […]

Filed Under: Antidumping, CBP, Enforcement, Import Fraud, International Trade Tagged With: Single Entry Bond

September 27, 2017 by Nathaniel Rickard

In First Year of Existence, CBP’s EAPA Proceedings Provides Meaningful, Timely Remedies to Circumvention

The Enforce and Protect Act of 2015, Section 421 (EAPA) established an administrative process through which trade-affected domestic industries could petition U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to take action against unfairly traded imports that were entered into the United States so as to fraudulently evade antidumping and/or countervailing duties. Under the legislation, EAPA proceedings […]

Filed Under: Antidumping, CBP, EAPA, Enforcement, Import Fraud, International Trade

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