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Commerce to Adjust Penalties for Inflation

The Commerce Department is adjusting its civil monetary penalties for inflation, the agency said in a notice published in the Federal Register. The 2020 adjustments for inflation will apply only to penalties “with a dollar amount, and will not apply…

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to [penalties] written as functions of violations,” the notice said. The changes will take effect Jan. 15.