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- From: kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Dumping Defined
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.040001.18961@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 04:00:01 GMT
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- In article <ofAL0AG00WB5QVPG8v@andrew.cmu.edu> Stephen Sorensen <ss9o+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >
- [---]
- >Tariffs on these chips are going to make PC's more expensive. They might
- >also send more US manufacturing jobs abroad.
- >
- >IMHO, the most reasonable and probably verifiable definition of dumping
- >is, as Ted suggested, selling at below marginal costs.
-
- Broadly true, but to be more accurate, International competition involves
- two margins: The "local" margin (Korea, in the example quoted in this thread),
- and the "target" country margin.
-
- The US typically accuses other country's of "dumping" when US firms can't
- compete against the world price. When the US dumps products in which it has an
- international competitive advantage (agriculture, patient monitoring
- equipment, aeropace, etc.), we call it "target pricing".
-
- There is practically no justification in the real world for "dumping", except
- in the minds of whining US CEO's begging for trade protection, and the
- politicians willing to grant it to them (for a price).
-
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- Kevin Carothers {psivax,philabs,retix,quad1}!ttidca!kevin
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