Last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the distribution of over $61 million in funds to affected domestic producers under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA) (also known colloquially as “the Byrd Amendment”), with another $3 million in collected antidumping duties withheld. In the thirteen years that CDSOA distributions have been […]
Japan and Russia move closer to peace treaty, but why now?
Japan and Russia never concluded a peace treaty at the end of the Second World War. The USSR’s seizure of a group of islands (called the Southern Kurils in Russia, and the Northern Territories in Japan) in the war’s final days became a rift in bilateral relations that no pair of leaders since then has […]