ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an overview of antidumping trade law in the United States. It outlines the history of Russian uranium exports to the US, and how these shipments related to the Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) material. The chapter outlines the two primary politico-commercial factors that stalled the implementation of the weapons-to-fuel agreement. It provides a more specific examination of the charges against Russian uranium, and the resulting suspensions to those charges. The chapter concludes with a prelude to the other side of the debate, the principles of American security concerns, bilateral relations and strategic issues that Bill Clinton believed to be a national priority. In effect, the self-preservation mandate of the US domestic industry was at odds with that of the Russian side. In addition, the American interests believed that the Amendment worked in favour of those companies that had already developed close joint venture relations with Russian enterprises.
