Supply Chain Research

The South Korean government has lodged another WTO complaint against the U.S., this time focusing on the use of adverse facts in reviewing steel and power transformer trade cases. That follows a wide-ranging complaint – via the WTO consultation mechanism – against the U.S. section 201 trade case regulations after tariffs were applied against washing machines and solar panels. The move is emblematic of an increasingly hawkish stance from South Korea that will likely carry over into the next round of KORUS negotiations. The large power transformer case came in response to a 54% rise in U.S...