Stronger Dollar Pushes Trade Agreements Act Thresholds Down
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.17.15
On December 15, 2015, the U.S. Trade Representative published its biennial readjustment of the Trade Agreements Act thresholds expressed in "special drawing rights." The new dollar thresholds, effective for 2016-2017, will be approximately 6.4% lower than the current thresholds, going to $191,000 for most covered supply contracts and $7,358,000 for most covered construction contracts, with other adjusted thresholds applicable to certain free trade agreements.
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