Foreign firms face punitive antidumping duties if they do not cooperate with the US Department of Commerce (DOC). For example, 37% of all foreign firms involved in antidumping investigations in the US chose faced quot;facts availablequot; margins for the 1995-2002 period, with average...

In 2007 the US reversed its long-standing policy prohibiting the simultaneous imposition of anti-dumping duties (ADDs) and countervailing duties (CVDs) against non-market economies. The EU followed the US' lead and also began imposing simultaneous ADDs and CVDs. The practice, however, leads to...