Thanks to complaints from U.S. ribbon companies, the United States has now imposed anti-dumping duties of up to 231.4 percent on gift-wrap ribbons imported from China. Duties of up to 4.54 percent were imposed on Taiwan. The difference was explained by the Commerce Department as due to China having a higher dumping margin of between 208.8 and
Not really, but Wal-Mart should consider it. In the current class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart that has just been certified by a federal appeals court: “The plaintiffs allege that women were paid less than, and were given fewer opportunities for promotion than, their male counterparts.” If women are willing to work for less than men, then
President Obama wants US exports to double within five years. Indeed, “raising exports is a national priority.” Sounds like a Soviet Five Year Plan. More exports are good, of course, but don’t think for a minute that Obama believes in free trade. He has created an Export Council to centrally plan his trade goal, increased tariffs on Chinese tires,
Today on NPR’s All Things Considered there was a discussion of extending unemployment benefits. The liberal view that unemployment insurance was a good thing and that the benefits should be extended was taken for granted. Mention was made that Democrats and Republicans in Congress disagree on how to fund an expansion of benefits. Then a
A German company, Nordex, is expanding— in Jonesboro, Arkansas . The company plans to hire up to 700 Americans at above-average wages. I haven’t heard any conservatives denounce the action of Nordex. Yet, when a US company builds a plant in Germany and hires German workers, some conservatives go ballistic and call on the US government to “do
Nothing has come of it , but if it was more than one paragraph then it is not a free-trade agreement—it is a managed-trade agreement.
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