Two Minutes in Trade – June 3, 2019 – Vietnam Hit with Circumvention Duties on Steel

Is circumvention the next tariff weapon for the Trump administration? According to US law, the Department of Commerce is charged with making circumvention determinations when it is alleged that goods subject to anti dumping or countervailing duties are merely completed or assembled in a second country to avoid the ADD/CVD. Listen to what happened to Vietnamese steel products.