Definitions for "Foreign Sales Corporation"
Keywords:  fsc, subsidiary, export, wto, offshore
In the U.S. tax code, a specialized sales corporation whose income is lumped into the same income basket as that of a domestic international 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.
a company, which is incorporated outside of the United States and is given special tax treatment under US tax regulations because it promotes the export of US manufactures