Kat Lucero

Correspondent

Kat is a US trade reporter for MLex. She previously covered tax policy, the Internal Revenue Service and Congress for Tax Analysts, Bloomberg BNA and The Hill. Kat was also a community news writer, covering real estate, economic development, art, food and restaurants in Washington, DC, as well as a reporting fellow for the Sunlight Foundation.

Selected Insights by Kat

Chinese twist ties found to be subsidized, dumped as Commerce puts off currency review

17 Feb 2021 12:00 am Kat Lucero

Twist ties from China have been assigned a final US antisubsidy rate of 111.96 percent, with no offsetting for the devaluation of Chinese currency.
- Trade
- North America
- Asia
US Commerce Department is fast-tracking major duty evasion rules

09 Sep 2020 1:00 pm Kat Lucero

Sweeping changes to US trade enforcement regulations are underway, and the Commerce Department appears to be intent on finalizing them.
- Trade
- North America
TikTok's global troubles a warning for Chinese social media

05 Aug 2020 9:54 pm Amy Miller, Kat Lucero, Vesela Gladicheva, Wooyoung Lee, Laurel Henning

TikTok may be able to escape its current dispute with the US, but the video-sharing app will still be facing regulatory headwinds around the globe.
Commerce Department’s 'particular market situation’ approach in US dumping cases rebuffed by trade court

03 Aug 2020 1:00 pm Kat Lucero

In US antidumping cases, the Commerce Department believes it has discretion to significantly increase import duties on dumped products.
Imported transformer parts to undergo US national security trade probe

04 May 2020 10:02 pm Kat Lucero

The Trump administration will investigate the national security impact of foreign-sourced materials used to make electrical transformers.
- Trade
- North America