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Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... with heir antics. Ben should remind them of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act -- enacted on 17 June 1930 - which increased the tariffs on US imports from 25.9 per cent to 50 per cent. What did this produce? Other countries imposed retaliatory tariffs on US ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... States and China. Market action came as China filed a World Trade Organisation complaint over what it alleged were unfair tariffs imposed by Washington on Chinese tyre imports. Analysts said the prospect of a trade war between the US and China had made ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... And its name is protectionism. During the Great Depression, the US Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs on American imports. Didn't work. Never would. Why? Because other countries retaliated with their own trade barriers. This ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... pain and desperation ever again. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 - aimed at protecting jobs at home by raising import tariffs - and the National Labour Relations Act of 1935 - giving the government power to set prices for many US industries - come to ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... that carbon production is now trading in Australia at $19 per tonne, this means the 10-to-one efficiency ratio of feed-in tariffs compared to emissions trading would have saved the German economy the equivalent of $1.8 billion in abatement costs notwithstanding ...

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... 25 per cent export tariff to help keep grain in the country, reported the China Daily earlier this year. Similar export tariffs also apply to fertilizers. Against this momentum, while the Indian food futures ban may not be as effective as they hope ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... spikes are so strong that in some wheat exporting countries, for example Kazakhstan, the government is imposing export tariffs. But with former wheat exporters like India now becoming net importers the demand pressure on suppliers must be irresistibl ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... that the US will lodge with the World Trade Organisation over the next week following their decision last week to impose tariffs on some paper goods from China that studies showed were receiving 10-20 per cent subsidy from the Chinese government.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
Following the announcement by the US that it would impose tariffs on imported paper products from China after its research had shown that they were being subsidized by 10-20 per cent, trade negotiations have become more urgent as key players perceive ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
... to increase rates, if not in the next few days, then most likely so next month. US authorities have decided to impose tariffs on some paper products from China in a move that will be seen as a critical turning point in the relationship between the two ...