TRADE POLICY
Bovard correctly reports that the United States, hardly the paragon of open markets it claims to be, sports many bits of protectionism that we consumers end up paying for. But he fails to appreciate the skill with which some of our trading partners have targeted and then lopped off choice hunks of prime domestic markets with selective “dumping” practices.
Thus it is unfair for him to insinuate that anti-dumping efforts are simply extensions of U.S. protectionism. While anti-dumping laws can be abused, dumping and its companion--government subsidization of exports--remain very real threats to the survival of the postwar multilateral trading system.
JOHN R. LIEBMAN
Los Angeles
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