Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

21. Department of Commerce · Minor

Use analytics and AI to detect AD/CVD circumvention

Not started

667 21. Department of Commerce

“Implement advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to identify opportunities for self-initiation, detect circumvention, and prevent bad actors from gaming the system.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Nothing found. No Commerce instrument deploys advanced analytics or artificial intelligence at Enforcement and Compliance to identify self-initiation opportunities or detect circumvention. The FY2026 request's trade-enforcement increase mentions building 'the analytical tools necessary to address supply chain and sourcing risks', but that money is for the Bureau of Industry and Security and for supply-chain risk, not for AD/CVD circumvention analytics at E&C.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Cluster negative search E&C-1 (chapter log): Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "self-initiation" (1 hit, a 2025-03-31 correction notice), "surrogate country" (73 hits, all individual AD/CVD case notices), "non-market economy" methodology (131, same), "Top Markets" (0); plus a jq pass over every in-window Federal Register record whose agency is the International Trade Administration, with the individual AD/CVD case notices filtered out. Also Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "artificial intelligence" restricted to the Commerce Department slug, and for circumvention + analytics.

The nearest thing in the record is the FY2026 discretionary request’s $134 million “Fair Trade and Trade Enforcement” increase, $122 million of it for BIS, whose justification promises “increased antidumping and countervailing duty investigations” and “the analytical tools necessary to address supply chain and sourcing risks”. Under §3b progress is measured on this ask: that is a different bureau and a different object, so it is recorded here as context rather than as delivery.

Action
create
Object
advanced analytics and artificial intelligence tools at Enforcement & Compliance
ID
1823