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Keyword: tariff

Byrding for Profit (6/25/2004)

U. S. shrimpers use anti-dumping protection to resist competitive pressure from more efficient Asian shrimp farmers and to gain de facto subsidy.

Keywords: anti-dumping, Asia, Byrd amendment, overproduction, protection, shrimp, subsidy, tariff

No Chicken Feet! (1/3/2013)

Chicken feet, long considered a waste product in the US, have become a profit center for the high-volume low-profit US chicken industry in the China export market. But this export trade is not exempted from political whims.

Keywords: byproduct, chicken feet, China, comparative advantage, culture, export, fixed cost, inferior good, tariff, trade protection, US