ANTE Act – Nonmarket Tariff Evasion
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-08-31 — Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act of 2026: cross-connection with protecting-american-industry-labor-trade-crimes-act: The DOJ trade-crimes unit would provide the criminal-enforcement counterpart to ANTE Act provisions targeting nonmarket-economy tariff evasion. (novelty: 3)
- 2024-12-04 — Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act of 2024: cross-connection with protecting-american-industry-labor-trade-crimes-act: Complementary approaches to tariff/trade evasion: DOJ prosecutorial capacity vs. substantive evasion investigation authorities. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-09-02 — Heightened Import Disclosures for Supply Chain Visibility: cross-connection with cbp-import-supply-chain-visibility: Both address nonmarket/transshipment tariff evasion, one via administrative disclosure rules and the other via legislation. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-01-21 — Stopping Adversarial Tariff Evasion Act: cross-connection with stopping-adversarial-tariff-evasion-act: Both target third-country tariff evasion by adversary-linked producers; SATEA reassigns country of origin based on ownership/control, while the ANTE Act addresses nonmarket-economy circumvention patterns. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-05-22 — Closing the De Minimis Loophole Act: cross-connection with closing-de-minimis-loophole-act: Both target China-origin low-value shipment channels commonly cited as vectors for tariff evasion; ending de minimis for China removes a key evasion pathway addressed by nonmarket tariff enforcement proposals. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-05-23 — ANTE Act: Finding introduces the ANTE Act (HR3575), authorizing USTR to investigate covered entities tied to nonmarket economy countries that use third-country investments to evade Section 301 tariffs and to impose equivalent remedial tariffs on associated goods. (novelty: 3)