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2005-08-02 China-Japan-Koreas

byrd amenment has japan lookin at sankshens

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Posted by muck4doo 2005-08-02 00:49|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Japan, along with other nations, challenged the law and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) declared it illegal. The European Union and Canada already have imposed retaliatory sanctions.

Anti-dumping sanctions. You financial types go ahead and duke it out. I'm not even going to try to venture and opinion. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-02 07:45|| 2005-08-02 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Ditto; I'm for free trade, but I'm into military and world geopolitics stuff, and I need Z's!

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-08-02 08:28|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-08-02 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The US, unfortunately, does use a lot of protectionism for its buisnesses. Results of political bribes, I think. I'm all for free trade and letting the Darwinism of buisness do its magic.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-02 09:47|| 2005-08-02 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not the anti-dumping law that's the issue here, nor is it the penalty, it's the fact that the penalty is handed back to affected industries directly as a subsidy rather than being kept by the government that's triggering the sanctions.

And anti-dumping laws aren't protectionist at all. It's every bit as illegal for a US company to dump in order to damage a competitor as it is for a foreign company to do the same.

Posted by AzCat 2005-08-02 11:58|| 2005-08-02 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 He'll pull the amandment if Japan renames itself Byrd...

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-02 12:22|| 2005-08-02 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Free trade is fine as it goes.

It seems to me, however, that the primary allegiance might best be given to the nation, America, and not Kapital, if in obeying the second we give up the first.

Did you know that some essential American military technology is sourced ONLY in Taiwan?

Perhaps certain shareholders are pleased with this low cost arrangement, it saves them, after all, from having to hire a contingent of greedy SUV driving engineers in Waltham, or Palo Alto, or Missoula.

I'm sure that when the Straits of Taiwan are closed, replacement parts can readily be cobbled together on Wall Street.

Posted by Red Lief 2005-08-02 23:42|| 2005-08-02 23:42|| Front Page Top

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