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India probes wood panel imports from Vietnam
08/06/2015
Final US anti-dumping hearings begin tomorrow
08/06/2015
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) embarks on the final phase of its anti-dumping and countervailing hearings tomorrow (9 June 2015). This follows the July 2014 ITC decision that there is “a reasonable indication” of material injury to the US tyre industry by alleged Chinese government subsidies to tyre manufacturers.
Canada, Mexico Seek WTO Authorisation for Retaliation Over COOL
08/06/2015
CANADA - Canada's Minister of International Trade Canada, Edward Fast, and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz have issued a statement with Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, and Secretary of Agriculture, Enrique Martínez y Martínez, to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over authorization to impose over $3 billion in retaliatory measures against US exports to Canada.
India Makes The Anti-Dumping Mistake With Steel and Thereby Makes All Indians Poorer
07/06/2015
The point and purpose of having a government is to make the population, the citizenry, richer. There’s some things that simply have to be done and which can only be done by government: defence of the realm, the creation of a criminal justice system, these sorts of things. There’s also things that might be useful to do and which government can do reasonably well: say, as in this case, the regulation of foreign trade. But it is still increasing the wealth and income of the citizenry which is the underlying aim: and by imposing anti-dumping tariffs upon foreign steel India is making its own citizens poorer. This really isn’t the point and purpose of having a government at all. Therefore, it’s not something a government should do.
