In another example of the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement of U.S. trade law, the Department of Commerce is poised to begin collecting countervailing and antidumping duties on polyester-textured yarn imported from China and India.

The move comes after two major U.S.-based synthetic yarn producers alleged in petitions that China and India were harming the domestic industry by dumping cheap, subsidized imports of yarn on the U.S. market. In 2017, those imports from China and India totaled $35 million and $19.6 million, respectively, according to the Commerce Department.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]