Bipartisan Bill Expanding CVD Authority Introduced
Two Democrat and two Republican senators want to give the Commerce Department the ability to add substitutable products to antidumping and countervailing duty cases, to help fight circumvention of those duties. It would only apply to nonmarket economies. Sen. Tammy…
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Baldwin, D-Wis.; Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.; and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., are calling the bill, which was introduced Nov. 19, the Play By the Rules Act. They say that China violates the spirit of the law by altering products that are about to be hit with duties. “In fact, of all the anti-circumvention petitions ever filed for ‘minor alterations,’ almost 70 percent are against China," a bill explainer said. Baldwin and Capito introduced a bill with same name in last session of Congress, in 2018. It did not get any hearings or votes.