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More Power to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

The media has reported on various potential plans and ideas being discussed by lawmakers to further expand or improve the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’s (CFIUS) scope and authorities. To date, no legislation has been introduced in Congress, and only few details about what has been proposed is publicly known.  Based on … Continue Reading

Government Accountability Office Review of CFIUS

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a letter to Representative Robert Pittenger (R-NC) stating that the GAO has accepted the request to review Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’s (CFIUS) “statutory and administrative authorities” to ensure that it has “kept pace with the growing scope of foreign acquisitions in important economic sectors … Continue Reading

Trade Talk: Week in Review (15-21 August 2016)

GAO Report on Antidumping.  House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released a statement on 15 August in response to the GAO report titled, “Antidumping and Countervailing Duties: CBP Action Needed to Reduce Duty Processing Errors and Mitigate Nonpayment Risk.”  He stated: [The] GAO report highlights that the Administration needs to do much more … Continue Reading
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