Foreign Sales Corporation


 

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Foreign Sales Corporation

Refers to a provision of the U.S. tax code that grants income-tax rebates to American exporters if they form what may be a largely artificial foreign subsidiary called an FSC. This has been the subject of a trade dispute with the EU which complained to the WTO that this constitutes an illegal export subsidy.



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