Critical Thinking And Case Studies

businesses importing manufacturing items it is sending a strong signal to the U.S. worker that the value is put on lower wage rather than the domestic skills and investing in the U.S. economy. Even though we are discussing the manufacturing of trade there are other areas that are affected in our daily lives such as social, political, environmental to name a few. There is a need for balance so everyone has a fair-trading field and not have one country dominate over the smaller or weaker country. A perfect scenario is when U.S. Senator Steve Daines brought forth the “Obama administration's decision to increase the costs of production for Montana companies by excluding many Generalized System of Preferences countries from duty relief on exports of backpacks, luggage and other related travel goods.” (Daines. S., 2016). For there to be a fair-trading field all countries need to be on equal ground which presents a chance for becoming

From an academic standpoint, economists overall believe that free trade would benefit the economy more than instituting tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers. However, the reality is quite different. Politically, tariffs help to strike a balance between social welfare and the politicians’ goals. One theory is that campaign contributions are needed for re-election; and to achieve these funds, politicians will weigh this need against welfare-reducing protection for industry lobbyists (Magee, 2011). The models would suggest that the tariffs should actually be much higher than they are due to the low efficiency cost of tariffs compared to the substantial gains provided for the producers (Magee, 2011). However, developed countries actually have very low tariffs. There are six possible explanations for why developed countries have such low tariffs when the political theories behind why we have tariffs at all would suggest they should be higher.

Unsurprisingly the US Steel industry was influential in Bush’s decision to erect trade barriers on steel imports, with their uncompetitive and politically sensitive nature proving to be a constraint on the Bush’s government’s free trade ambitions. Following a surge in foreign imports, the industry had been filing various anti-dumping cases – over one hundred in between 1999 and 2002 (Ho, 2003, pp12-13). Such pressures were solidified when the International Trade Commission ruled that imports has caused ‘serious injury’ to US steel producers (USITC, 2001). Adding further

Meanwhile, according to Morelock, J (2017) Tariff has a clear number of results that may be an advantage to some parties, while being a significant disadvantage to others. Tariff have an impact on promoting American products, when the U.S government chooses to place a tariff on an import good, the producer can choose to reduce their price to compensate for the tariff or to pass on the cost to the consumer. (2) increase the government revenue, the U.S. government collect revenue in order to economically support its function. (3) discourages trade, when American consumers choose to buy a lower-priced American product, foreign producers become disadvantaged, ultimately leading to less trade with the U.S. Foreign producers are forced to reduce their prices to compete with similar American products. (4) reduces consumer choice, individual consumer choice remains as one of the greatest consumer benefits of international trade. When tariffs are placed on imported goods, the increase prices and reduced trade prohibit individuals from all choices that could be available in the market.

According to Free Trade Organization, Dan Ikenson, policy analyst, claims “Few trade policies engender more bitterness and international ill will than the U.S. antidumping law. For many years, that law has been the weapon of choice among domestic producers seeking to quell import competition.”(zeroing, April 27, 2004)

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One client I came into contact today was an older male that was admitted to the ED for complaints of dizziness, fatigue, weakness, blurred vision and numbness on the left side of his body. As a response to the client’s symptoms the nurse checked his vitals, and performed an assessment with emphasis on the neurological exam. One of the assessment findings were that his left eye was slightly drooping, he had significant vision loss in his left eye, high blood pressure, and slight muscle weakness on his left hand. Concerned with the findings, the nurse reported the findings to the doctor and the physician was concerned that he might have had a stroke so her ordered a head CT-scan as a diagnostic tool to evaluate for conditions such as a stroke, trauma, tumor, or head injury.

Although tariffs usually cause domestic prices to increase they can have a positive effect on our economy and specifically our domestic producers of steel and their employees. The US trade policy has historically been protectionist in nature, and congress, the principle body of power for import policy, heavily favored domestic firms over their foreign competitors (Irwin 146). As a result, domestic steel producers have had tariffs and quotas in place for many years. An effective tariff raises revenue for our US government and can help to subsidize domestic production at the expense of foreign producers. This is good because the American government receives money from foreign exporters that it would not have otherwise had access to. This money can then be used in domestic government policies and could

•Removing as much as $1 billion of tariff imposts from what Australian consumers pay for Chinese clothes, shoes, car components, cars and

This paper begins with an overview on China’s economic trade since the accession to WTO followed by an examination of how US has been responding to some Chinese imports utilizing trade defense by looking at China as anti-dumping target and some recent case studies involving antidumping actions initiated in the USA against China and attempt to determine what the frequent exercise of the antidumping laws might mean for the future. The paper concludes with a brief commentary and recommendations.

In this scenario, the U.S. government has imposed these tariffs in order to make Chinese solar products relatively costly. This increased prices on these products will in turn reduce the demand for Chinese made solar products in the United States. Also, with the tariffs and reduced supply, this will increase the equilibrium price of solar products in the United States. These increased prices will allow for more U.S. producers to compete in the U.S. solar products market. With this type of activity, the government is hopeful that this will help U.S. domestic producers become more competitive. And, hopefully this will create more jobs for U.S. workers.

As times have progressed government intervention on international trade has become a common theme in in American society. Government intervention on foreign trade is primarily practiced to protect producers and consumers within domestic markets. For example, if a producer outside the United States has excess product and chooses to dump it and export it to America, then whoever is getting the imports is getting a product for a much cheaper price. This essentially can hurt domestic producers because they cannot manufacture the same product for that cheap of a price. This is why there is such a thing as the Federal Trade Commission also known as the FTC. Ideally the Federal Trade Commission exists to maintain a level of benefit for both the producers and consumers within their respective countries. The FTC implements laws and regulations to prevent companies from different types of fraudulent activity. Although the higher ups within these big companies may not like the government’s interference with foreign trade, it is a necessary entity. Without it there would be price fixing, false advertising of products, and in result monopolies would bloom. Many people believe without government intervention, the balance that keeps our economy afloat between consumers and producers would be one-sided. Yet many people also believe that the government needs to intervene less with foreign trading. The purpose of this study is to see whether or not government

United States of America, being one of the largest economies for importing steel, is imposing taxes of around 256% on china. It is found out that china has been accused of dumping and therefore it is selling its steel at a lower price. US is imposing taxes at other countries too, such as India, south Korea and Italy. The domestic producers, are suffering because the imports have been rising, as stated in the article “Imports of all steel products through October rose 3.9 percent in 2015”, and the quantity demanded of the domestic goods are reducing as the price levels are not matching, and hence the tariffs are imposed.

In theory, high tariffs and importation quotas are beneficial to domestic economies because they reduce the competition from foreign manufacturers for domestic industry. However, the effectiveness and advisability of tariffs and quotas is severely constrained by various factors that cannot be ignored. First, the relative weakness of the U.S. dollar makes it difficult for domestic manufacturers to compete internationally. Second, the fact that other nations (such as China, most notably) artificially manipulate the value of their currency to keep their domestic manufacturing costs low undermines the value of tariffs on their goods. Third, neither tariffs nor quotas is an effective mechanism when the goods at issue are no longer even produced domestically, as in the case of many of the cheaper consumer goods that the U.S. typically imports in high volumes from foreign manufacturers. Fourth, one consequence of controlling foreign competition through tariffs and quotas is that they are usually targeted to specific foreign nations, which can simply open the door to other foreign manufacturers from other nations to whatever extent those mechanisms are effective against specific nations targeted by them.