Book Review: Bakerics/Wilson/Weigel, Anti-dumping, Countervailing Duty, and Other Trade Actions; Practicing Law Institute

Foreign parties often view U.S. trade actions as criminal actions or hybrids of a criminal and administrative nature.  Counterveiling and anti-dumping duties are seen as quasi-penalties, and bars to imports under 377 Tariff Act of 1930, on the basis of piracy of intellectual property rights as punishment for commercial offenses.