Department of Commerce

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, Canada intends to launch another dispute under the U.S.-Mexico -Canada Agreement over U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties on softwood lumber.  Canada previously brought challenges under USMCA against the increased duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports.  Th...

A group of Senators from the Upper-Midwest introduced a bill this week to crack down on trade cheating.  Legislators say the Play by the Rules Act will hold China accountable for ignoring trade rules and harming American workers.  U.S. anti-d...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it found Mexico is guilty of dumping tomatoes into the United States. Commerce said the preliminary dumping margin is just over 25%.   The announcement refutes the Mexican claim that the data that they submitted to the Department of Commerce will prove that it’s not dumping the produce into the U.S.  The ev...