No More Zeroing?: The United States Changes its Antidumping Policy to Comply with the WTO
Introduction
Threatened by trade retaliation against U.S. exports by the European Union ("EU") and Japan, on February 14, 2012, the U.S. Department of Commerce ("DOC") announced a policy change to generally end the practice of "zeroing" in antidumping cases. The DOC had earlier ended zeroing in antidumping investigations; the February 14 policy change covers future administrative reviews of existing antidumping orders, including new shipper reviews, expedited antidumping reviews, and sunset reviews.