Government/Policy
September 18, 2022
Leibowitz on Trade: AD/CVD and Punitive Duties Against the Innocent
Written by Lewis Leibowitz
Antidumping and countervailing duty actions (also known as trade cases) have been a mainstay for protecting American industries from foreign competition. Many lawyers and economic consultants (I am among them) have made their living litigating these cases at Commerce Department, the US International Trade Commission, and the courts.
More than 660 products are currently subject to antidumping or countervailing duty orders or investigations. About half of the current orders involve steel and steel-related products. The history of this law is intimately tied with steel trade, going back to World War I.

