Economics: Turn Around Is Fair Game
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America's size and prosperity have made it the largest consumer of
imported products in the world. Brightly lit shopping malls adorned with the
latest foreign-made apparel, gadgets and trinkets, testify to the vast selection
of goods available for purchase. There is a dark side to this enormous ....
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.... a price less than what it costs to make
them is called dumping. Foreign governments subsidize the manufacturing
processes of certain industries so their companies can displace the
competition's industry. The television industry is a perfect example of
subsidized dumping. The post World War II infusion of subsidized Japanese-made
televisions, terminated the United States(U.S.) television manufacturing
industry. In the late 1950's, half a million units crossed our borders, tax and
tariff fre ....
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