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Buy American and the WTO

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Concerns by foreign governments and organizations about the "Buy American" provisions adopted as part of President Obama's economic stimulus package will not affect the rights currently enjoyed by WTO members to access the U.S. government procurement market according to a report in BNA's International Trade Reporter.  However, details on how the provisions would be implemented were not provided by the U.S.  Read more 26 ITR 305...

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WTO Members Review Revised Rules Text; U.S. Insists on Zeroing Provision.  WTO members reacted to the Doha Round text on antidumping rules.The United States wants the final agreement on antidumping text to include provisions on "zeroing."

Zeroing refers to the practice in which the export and the home market prices of an allegedly dumped good are compared.  The results of those comparisons are aggregated to calculate a dumping margin for the product as a whole. Read more in BNA's International Trade Reporter.

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