Administration of the Steel Trigger Price Mechanism
ID-80-15
Published: Jul 23, 1980. Publicly Released: Jul 23, 1980.
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The steel trigger price mechanism (TPM) was established to speed up antidumping investigations. If imports were priced below preestablished trigger prices, the Treasury Department, which originally administered the program with the Customs Service, and later the Department of Commerce, could initiate antidumping investigations without prior industry complaint.
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Cost analysisImportingInternational economic relationsInternational tradeLaw enforcementPrice indexesProgram evaluationSteel industryImportsAntidumping