But a year later, Mr. Santorum found himself on the opposite side of the Bush administration, which was attempting to repeal a law on tariffs imposed because of antidumping cases pursued by steelmakers and other industries.
The ITC ruled in June that the U.S. industry producing circular welded pipe was injured as a result of imports from China, allowing imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese circular welded steel pipe.
"And it is certainly not the path of discretionary antidumping or agricultural subsidies used in scandalous proportions to impede free competition".
He is analyzing data on antidumping actions to track "tit for tat" retaliation, which appears to account for roughly a third of the antidumping filings by these new users.
The council and its American counterpart, the Business Roundtable, are considering the merits of a North American customs union, with a common external tariff, and the elimination of antidumping and countervailing-duty laws between the countries.
The practice, called zeroing, overestimates the amount of antidumping fines to be paid by importers, the European Union contends.
That is because the United States still classifies China as a nonmarket economy, which sets off special rules for the evaluation of antidumping and antisubsidy cases that heavily favor American companies.
To stop the protectionist abuse of antidumping and countervailing measures, which have mushroomed, it was agreed to clarify and improve the use of these instruments.
After years of antidumping lawsuits and legal wrangling, the ailing domestic steel market is set to get some measure of protection.
After years of antidumping lawsuits and other legal wrangling, the ailing U.S. steel business is set to get some measure of protection.
While there, Mr. Kaplan was in charge of administering the U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws, and conducted over five hundred antidumping and countervailing duty cases.
