U.S. Trade Remedies Are Put to the Test by Forced Labor and Foreign Subsidies

In the careful dance between foreign importation and domestic manufacturing, American trade laws aim to play a beat everyone can keep up with, an especially challenging duet if the international goods are produced using forced labor or are thought to be harming competition in the U.S. In a recent discussion on trade remedy enforcement hosted by Mondaq, Matthew Nicely, a partner at Akin Gump, and Brooke Davies, a former associate with the firm who is now a legal, markets and operations officer at CarbonPool, a carbon credit insurance company, discussed the importance of managing the risks associated with anti-dumping and countervailing duties orders, as well as forced labor concerns. See “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Brings New Requirements for Supply-Chain Compliance” (Jan. 19, 2022).

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