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2004-09-01 16:35:21
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government intelligence, national priorities, and other oxymorons...,
2004-09-03 12:10:43
Really Existing Free Trade:
The United States says it will continue to slap duties on countries it claims dump their goods on the U.S. market, despite a World Trade Organisation ruling Tuesday that authorises seven nations and the European Union (EU) to impose sanctions against Washington's anti-dumping law.
The concern here shouldn't be the hypocrasy, which everyone paying any attention fully expects (and this is Clinton-era law, one which last year was apparently opposed by the Bush administration, calling it a "corporate subsidy", and now is being defended by the same, Yet Another Flip Flop). Domestic concern should probably revolve around the fact that the duties flow directly to the companies that filed the complaint: if the duties exist they ought to assist the entire industry, including human capital, not the individual, girlie-man businesses running to arms of the nanny state. The international concern would run something like this:
a path-breaking legislation like the Byrd Amendment of the US could have been a test case for developing countries such as India to fashion their own strategy of support for its several industries reeling under structural problems.
As an added tick, this thing has some idiotic rulings, but that's US agricultural policy for you. It would suck out Western ag subsidized dumping in developing countries, if roles were reversed.
:: posted by buermann @ 2004-09-01 17:49:49 CST |
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