d test, to see if the prices of the exporter's U.S. sales vary significantly across region, time period or purchaser. Use of this test as part of the differential pricing analysis has been subject to much litigation, with the primary point of contention being whether Commerce must satisfy basic statistical assumptions such as roughly equal variances and normally-distributed data sets when running the test.

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Differential Pricing Analysis

The Commerce Department uses a differential pricing analysis to detect whether companies are selling goods across different time periods, regions or purchasers in an effort to mask the dumping of their products into the U.S. market. As part of this analysis, the agency will use a statistical test, called the Cohen's d test, to see if the prices of the exporter's U.S. sales vary significantly across region, time period or purchaser. Use of this test as part of the differential pricing analysis has been subject to much litigation, with the primary point of contention being whether Commerce must satisfy basic statistical assumptions such as roughly equal variances and normally-distributed data sets when running the test.

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U.S. Eases Syrian Export Sanctions to Help Reconstruction
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The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following individuals to the Specially Designated Nationals List June 5. All were added under Transnational Criminal Organizations Designations, which stems from a 2011 Executive Order that authorized additional actions to combat transnational organized crime. The individuals named are listed as leaders of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 gang, which has roots in El Salvador.

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May 31, 2013 by Jessica Arriens|Treasury Dept.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a General License detailing certain services, software and hardwire related to personal communications that can be exported and reexported to Iran on May 30. General License D lists all authorized transactions in that category. the License does not exempt businesses from the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations. Authorized transactions -- exportation or reexportation, directly or indirectly -- are: