It’s still a hot air story, and we give most hot air stories some dignatory with no power to do anything to change the situation has called for, demanded, warned or whatever but the issue is so serious that it deserves notice: we have frequently highlighted the manner in which US – and European anti-dumping measures that supposedly benefit a tiny minority are to the detriment of the vast majority, and there is now a groundswell of opinion at the US Department of Commerce that the International Trade Commission’s brief in considering charges of dumping should extend to a review of the impact of duties on consumers; the current issue is the anti-dumping duties likely to be made permanent today on memory chip imports from South Korea, which are sought by Micron Technology Inc but opposed by both all memory chip users and by the US chip capital equipment manufacturers that sell to the South Koreans.
