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title: South Korea Launches WTO Dispute Against the U.S. Challenging Multiple Provisions of U.S. Law and Commerce Department Proceedings
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# South Korea Launches WTO Dispute Against the U.S. Challenging Multiple Provisions of U.S. Law and Commerce Department Proceedings

  February 26, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last week, South Korea [requested consultations](https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news18_e/ds539rfc_20feb18_e.htm) with the United States at the WTO, launching a significant dispute that challenges both individual investigations and administrative reviews conducted by the Commerce Department, as well as broader aspects of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty law. Korea’s broader ​“as such” challenge targets provisions of U.S. law, including the 2015 ​“Leveling the Playing Field Act,” that authorize the Commerce Department to rely on adverse facts available in calculating a dumping margin for foreign producers or exporters that do not cooperate during a proceeding. Korea claims that U.S. law unfairly permits the Commerce Department to disregard information submitted during a proceeding and to instead apply an inappropriately high dumping margin.

Korea also challenges specific Commerce Department’s findings in multiple AD/CVD investigations, including on large power transformers, cold-rolled steel flat products, hot-rolled steel flat products, and corrosion-resistant steel products (“CORE”). WTO rules provide 60 days for the United States and Korea to discuss settlement of the dispute before Korea may file a more formal complaint to continue the dispute.

 

 

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