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Adjustments to take into account comparison of different products
08/12/2022 07:29
This part discussed how the Commerce Department determines which products sold in the home (or third) market should be compared to products sold to the United States. If the Commerce Department is forced to compare similar, rather than identical, products in the two markets, it adjusts the price of the home market product to make it comparable to the United States product. The Commerce Department makes this adjustment by adding or subtracting the difference between the variable cost of manufacture of the home market product and the variable cost of manufacture of the United States product, provided that such difference is less than 20% of the total cost of manufacture of the United States product. The Department will generally not allow a United States model to be compared to a non-identical (i.e. similar) home market model if the variable cost difference between the two products is more than 20% of the total cost of the United States model. To calculate this adjustment, called the glimmer' (for 'difference in merchandise') adjustment, the Commerce Department uses product-specific cost information.
