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Conference turris::scandia

Title:All about Scandinavia
Moderator:TLE::SAVAGE
Created:Wed Dec 11 1985
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:603
Total number of notes:4325

400.0. "Is Norway dumping Salmon on the US market?" by CHARLT::SAVAGE () Mon Jun 25 1990 13:57

    From: [email protected]
    Newsgroups: clari.news.europe,clari.biz.products
    Subject: Commerce says Norwegian salmon is being dumped in U.S. market
    Keywords: fishing, agriculture, trade, federal government,
	government operation, corporate products & services,
	corporate finance
    Date: 23 Jun 90 01:38:10 GMT
    Location: norway
    ACategory: financial  
    Slugword: salmon
 
 
    	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Commerce Department announced Friday a
    preliminary finding that imports of Atlantic salmon from Norway are
    being subsidized and directed the U.S. Customs Service to impose cash
    deposits or bonds on the fish.  Norway gives its whole or nearly
    whole salmon exports a 2.45 percent subsidy, the department said.

    	The Commerce Department's International Trade Administration will
    make a final determination in the case by Sept. 4.	If that
    determination supports the preliminary finding, the International Trade
    Commission must determine within 45 days whether the imports
    "materially injure or threaten injury" to the U.S. salmon industry.

    	A determination of injury can lead to the imposition of
    countervailing duties.
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400.1A Norwegian perspectiveTLE::SAVAGETue Mar 03 1992 15:4534
    From: [email protected] (Gunnar Blix)
    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    Subject: Re: Japanese market penetration. . .
    Date: 28 Feb 92 17:33:53 GMT
    Sender: [email protected]
    Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
    >...I was not aware of a problem between us and Norway.  Please
    >elaborate ....                                                 
 
    A basic example is that of Norwegian Salmon. Although there is no real
    `trade barrier', various restrictions that from Norway's point of view
    are lousy excuses are placed on the sale of Salmon to the U.S. A
    typical example was the immediate bans placed on it after Chernobyl,
    regardless of assurances from the Norwegian government that all exports
    were thorougly tested.
 
    It also works the other way around: the U.S. threatening restrictions
    on imports from Norway unless Norway buys more of their apples, and so
    on.
 
    It is quite amusing to follow the discussions on U.S. `fair trade' with
    Japan, knowing that they turn around and do the same thing to other
    (smaller) countries. The best indication I know that the U.S. is
    totally dependent on their own unfair trade is their unwillingness to
    `go metric' - if they really wanted to compete with foreign companies
    on a fair basis, they would long since have attempted to switch.
 
 
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