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International Trade Administration: Import Administration

Along with the US International Trade Commission, the Import Administration (IA) administers US antidumping and anti-subsidy laws which are intended to provide relief to US industry and workers from unfair international trade practices.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The Import Administration has developed long-term measures. These measures show the reduction in trade distorting practices in foreign countries and the percent of IA decisions overturned by U.S. courts. Reducing trade distorting practices overseas will produce freer markets for U.S. companies, while measuring the percent of IA decisions overturned promotes more accurate decisions.
  • The Program is taking steps to perform an impact evaluation. IA has had process evaluations that have complimented aspects of the program's administration, but it has not had an impact evaluation assessing achievement of program mission and goals. An impact evaluation and the relatively new performance measures will make determining actual program impact and performance better.
  • IA's administrative processes are transparent. IA has more characteristics of transparency and impartiality that were complied from World Trade Organization and Government Accountability Office reports than many other countries.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Completing an impact evaluation that assesses achievement of the program's mission and goals.
  • Implementing a financial system to better track resource allocation across goals and activities.

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