Petitions to the U.S. government to investigate trade policy infractions increased in June. There were five petitions regarding subsidies / dumping of imports and four relating to intellectual property. That represented a 350% year over year increase. One of the dumping / subsidy petitions relates to imports of silicon metal, used in steel and semiconductor manufacturing, from four countries. The case mirrors a similar one from 2018 which found dumping had occurred but that there was no injury to U.S. business, with the result that tariffs were not applied. Panjiva’s data shows U.S. impo...