Posts Tagged ‘antidumping’

Lawmakers backing ITC approval of antidumping duties

by For the MBJ Published: March 15,2011

Tags: agriculture, antidumping, aquaculture, international trade

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), along with Congressman Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), today praised U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) approval of a five-year extension of antidumping duties that they say have served to protect the U.S. shrimp industry from unfair import practices. Cochran, Wicker and Palazzo were among the lawmakers who [...] [...]

Senators pushing for continued duties on imported shrimp

by Wally Northway Published: February 2,2011

Tags: antidumping, aquaculture, fishing, shrimping, tariffs, trade

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) recently testified before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that existing antidumping duties must be extended to promote an even playing field for U.S. shrimpers “besieged by unfair foreign imports.” The ITC is in the process of determining whether conditions within the U.S. shrimp [...] [...]

Lawmakers want furniture imports investigated

by Wally Northway Published: September 9,2010

Tags: antidumping, furniture, imports, manufacturing

WASHINGTON — Several members of the Mississippi congressional delegation have asked federal authorities to investigate whether Chinese and other foreign furniture importers and exporters are skirting antidumping trade restrictions—practices that have hurt Mississippi wooden furniture makers in the past. U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker and U.S. Representatives Bennie Thompson and Travis Childers have [...] [...]

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