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  1. In international trade, when one country
  2. sells goods to another at below marginal cost
  3. or at a price below that in its own country.
  4. Countries dump in order to get rid of surplus
  5. produce or to improve their competitive
  6. position in the recipient country. The
  7. practice is widely condemned by
  8. protectionists (opponents of ree trade)
  9. because of the unfair competition it
  10. represents.
  11.