Russia has also imposed anti-dumping duties on Ukrainian pipes, one of the country's main exports.
Anti-dumping duties are a more fashionable (and more insidious) form of protectionism these days.
This would give anti-dumping duties to the companies that the duties are designed to protect.
Second, imports also fell sharply last year, thanks in part to a welter of anti-dumping duties.
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And while market conditions change quickly, anti-dumping duties are reviewed only after five years.
China is the biggest target of American anti-dumping duties, which cover 58 Chinese products from paintbrushes to televisions.
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The department delayed the decision on imposing anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels from March 27 to May 17.
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Governments often impose anti-dumping duties on foreign products to right this terrible wrong.
However, on April 19th Argentina announced anti-dumping duties on some Brazilian steel products.
Although rich countries, notably America and the European Union, have traditionally been the ardent users of anti-dumping duties, India now rivals them.
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In recent weeks anti-dumping duties were imposed on Chinese shrimp and wood furniture although the tariffs were lower than American producers had hoped.
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The Indian sales of Huawei, a telecoms firm, fell by half after it was hit with anti-dumping duties and labelled a security risk.
Fact: So far this year, the U.S. Department of Commerce has imposed countervailing or anti-dumping duties on a variety of China steel products.
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It has begun, for the first time, to calculate the real cost to poor countries of tariffs, anti-dumping duties and non-tariff barriers in rich markets.
Many emerging economies have yet to weigh in, but they may embrace international competition standards as a way to restrict rich countries' use of anti-dumping duties.
Calls for anti-dumping duties, protection against the undervalued yuan and so on all start from the politically convenient but economically illiterate idea that imports are bad and exports are good.
Patrick Messerlin, an economist at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, estimates that, because of this pro-cartel effect, anti-dumping duties are generally twice as costly to the economy as equivalent import tariffs.
The group opposes legislation that would make it easier for workers to join unions and that would impose anti-dumping duties on China, and it favors drilling for oil and natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf.
The government recently imposed fresh anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of sodium bicarbonate, for example, at the request of Penrice Soda Holdings, Australia's sole producer of soda-ash crystals, which appear in everything from animal feed to antacids.
The Europeans are cross at American misuse of trade-protection instruments, such as anti-dumping and countervailing duties.
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Brazil fumes (and rightly so) over anti-dumping and other punitive duties on its most competitive exports, including shoes and orange juice as well as steel.
Last November, the United States imposed large anti-dumping tariffs of as much as 249.96% and other duties of up to 15.97%.
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