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Trade Remedy Advocates Praise Trade Remedy Chapter in Rewritten NAFTA

A group of companies, trade associations, labor unions and law firms that advocate for antidumping and countervailing duty enforcement says it appreciates that the new NAFTA creates procedures to address evasion of trade remedy orders. The Committee to Support U.S.…

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Trade Laws says that AD and CVD laws are "constantly threatened by new and more subtle ways by our trading partners to illegally avoid payment of duties," and pointed to steel, bearings, furniture and honey as products involving duty circumvention or evasion. The changes to Chapter 10 will allow the U.S. to request duty evasion verification from Mexico or Canada, and the U.S. will be able to see confidential information to determine if duty evasion is happening. However, the press release noted, most evasion has been coming from Chinese firms.